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Karolina Navarro (A19106745)
In this mini project, you will explore FiveThirtyEight’s Halloween Candy data set
We will use lots of gglpot some basic stats, correlation analysis and PCA to make sense of the landscape of US candy - something hopefully more relatable than the proteomics and transcriptomics
candy_file <- read.csv("candy-data.csv", row.names = 1)
head(candy_file)
chocolate fruity caramel peanutyalmondy nougat crispedricewafer
100 Grand 1 0 1 0 0 1
3 Musketeers 1 0 0 0 1 0
One dime 0 0 0 0 0 0
One quarter 0 0 0 0 0 0
Air Heads 0 1 0 0 0 0
Almond Joy 1 0 0 1 0 0
hard bar pluribus sugarpercent pricepercent winpercent
100 Grand 0 1 0 0.732 0.860 66.97173
3 Musketeers 0 1 0 0.604 0.511 67.60294
One dime 0 0 0 0.011 0.116 32.26109
One quarter 0 0 0 0.011 0.511 46.11650
Air Heads 0 0 0 0.906 0.511 52.34146
Almond Joy 0 1 0 0.465 0.767 50.34755
Q1. How many different candy types are in this dataset?
nrow(candy_file)
[1] 85
Q2. How many fruity candy types are in the dataset?
sum(candy_file$fruity)
[1] 38
Q.3 What is your favorite candy (other than Twix) in the dataset and what is it’s winpercent value?
library(dplyr)
Attaching package: 'dplyr'
The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
filter, lag
The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
candy_file |>
filter(row.names(candy_file)=="Mike & Ike") |>
select(winpercent)
winpercent
Mike & Ike 46.41172
Q4. What is the winpercent value for “Kit Kat”?
candy_file["Kit Kat", "winpercent"]
[1] 76.7686
Q5. What is the winpercent value for “Tootsie Roll Snack Bars”?
candy_file["Tootsie Roll Snack Bars", "winpercent"]
[1] 49.6535
Q6. Is there any variable/column that looks to be on a different scale to the majority of the other columns in the dataset?
Yes!
Q7. What do you think a zero and one represent for the
candy$chocolatecolumn?
1 means constains chocolate 0 means it does not contain any chocolate
Q8. Plot a histogram of winpercent values
hist(candy_file$winpercent)

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(candy_file) +
aes(x = winpercent) +
geom_histogram(bins = 14, col="pink", ) + theme_bw()

Q9. Is the distribution of winpercent values symmetrical?
No!
Q10. Is the center of the distribution above or below 50%?
Below
summary(candy_file$winpercent)
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
22.45 39.14 47.83 50.32 59.86 84.18
Q11. On average is chocolate candy higher or lower ranked than fruit candy?
candy_file$chocolate == 1
[1] TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE
[13] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE
[25] TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE
[37] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE
[49] FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE
[61] FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
[73] FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
[85] TRUE
choc.candy <- candy_file[candy_file$chocolate == 1,]
choc.win <- choc.candy$winpercent
mean(choc.win)
[1] 60.92153
fruit.win <- candy_file[candy_file$fruity == 1,]$winpercent
mean(fruit.win)
[1] 44.11974
Q12. Is this difference statistically significant?
t.test(choc.win, fruit.win)
Welch Two Sample t-test
data: choc.win and fruit.win
t = 6.2582, df = 68.882, p-value = 2.871e-08
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
11.44563 22.15795
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y
60.92153 44.11974
We can reject the null and accept the alternate, and report that there is stastical significance considering the p value that is less than 0.05.
Q13. What are the five least liked candy types in this set?
y <- c("y", "a", "z")
sort(y)
[1] "a" "y" "z"
y
[1] "y" "a" "z"
order(y)
[1] 2 1 3
ord.ind <- order(candy_file$winpercent)
head(candy_file[ord.ind, ], 5)
chocolate fruity caramel peanutyalmondy nougat
Nik L Nip 0 1 0 0 0
Boston Baked Beans 0 0 0 1 0
Chiclets 0 1 0 0 0
Super Bubble 0 1 0 0 0
Jawbusters 0 1 0 0 0
crispedricewafer hard bar pluribus sugarpercent pricepercent
Nik L Nip 0 0 0 1 0.197 0.976
Boston Baked Beans 0 0 0 1 0.313 0.511
Chiclets 0 0 0 1 0.046 0.325
Super Bubble 0 0 0 0 0.162 0.116
Jawbusters 0 1 0 1 0.093 0.511
winpercent
Nik L Nip 22.44534
Boston Baked Beans 23.41782
Chiclets 24.52499
Super Bubble 27.30386
Jawbusters 28.12744
Q14. What are the top 5 all time favorite candy types out of this set?
ord.ind <- order(candy_file$winpercent)
tail(candy_file[ord.ind, ], 5)
chocolate fruity caramel peanutyalmondy nougat
Snickers 1 0 1 1 1
Kit Kat 1 0 0 0 0
Twix 1 0 1 0 0
Reese's Miniatures 1 0 0 1 0
Reese's Peanut Butter cup 1 0 0 1 0
crispedricewafer hard bar pluribus sugarpercent
Snickers 0 0 1 0 0.546
Kit Kat 1 0 1 0 0.313
Twix 1 0 1 0 0.546
Reese's Miniatures 0 0 0 0 0.034
Reese's Peanut Butter cup 0 0 0 0 0.720
pricepercent winpercent
Snickers 0.651 76.67378
Kit Kat 0.511 76.76860
Twix 0.906 81.64291
Reese's Miniatures 0.279 81.86626
Reese's Peanut Butter cup 0.651 84.18029
Q15. Make a first bar plot of candy ranking based on winpercent values.
ggplot(candy_file) +
aes(winpercent, reorder(row.names(candy_file),winpercent)) +
geom_col() + ylab("")

ggplot(candy_file) +
aes(winpercent, reorder(row.names(candy_file),winpercent), col=chocolate) +
geom_col() + ylab("")

We need a custom color vector
my_cols <- rep("black", nrow(candy_file))
my_cols[candy_file$chocolate==1] <- "chocolate"
my_cols[candy_file$bar==1] <- "brown"
my_cols[candy_file$fruity==1] <- "yellow"
my_cols
[1] "brown" "brown" "black" "black" "yellow" "brown"
[7] "brown" "black" "black" "yellow" "brown" "yellow"
[13] "yellow" "yellow" "yellow" "yellow" "yellow" "yellow"
[19] "yellow" "black" "yellow" "yellow" "chocolate" "brown"
[25] "brown" "brown" "yellow" "chocolate" "brown" "yellow"
[31] "yellow" "yellow" "chocolate" "chocolate" "yellow" "chocolate"
[37] "brown" "brown" "brown" "brown" "brown" "yellow"
[43] "brown" "brown" "yellow" "yellow" "brown" "chocolate"
[49] "black" "yellow" "yellow" "chocolate" "chocolate" "chocolate"
[55] "chocolate" "yellow" "chocolate" "black" "yellow" "chocolate"
[61] "yellow" "yellow" "chocolate" "yellow" "brown" "brown"
[67] "yellow" "yellow" "yellow" "yellow" "black" "black"
[73] "yellow" "yellow" "yellow" "chocolate" "chocolate" "brown"
[79] "yellow" "brown" "yellow" "yellow" "yellow" "black"
[85] "chocolate"
Q16. This is quite ugly, use the reorder() function to get the bars sorted by winpercent?
ggplot(candy_file) +
aes(winpercent, reorder(row.names(candy_file) ,winpercent)) +
geom_col(fill = my_cols) + ylab("")

Q17. What is the worst ranked chocolate candy?
Nik L Nip
Q18. What is the best ranked fruity candy?
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
library(ggrepel)
# How about a plot of win vs price
ggplot(candy_file) +
aes(x = winpercent, y = pricepercent) + geom_point(col=my_cols) + geom_text_repel(col=my_cols, label=rownames(candy_file), size=3.3, max.overlaps = 5)
Warning: ggrepel: 54 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
increasing max.overlaps

Q19. Which candy type is the highest ranked in terms of winpercent for the least money - i.e. offers the most bang for your buck?
Nik L Nip
Q20. What are the top 5 most expensive candy types in the dataset and of these which is the least popular?
ord <- order(candy_file$pricepercent, decreasing = TRUE)
head( candy_file[ord,c(11,12)], n=5 )
pricepercent winpercent
Nik L Nip 0.976 22.44534
Nestle Smarties 0.976 37.88719
Ring pop 0.965 35.29076
Hershey's Krackel 0.918 62.28448
Hershey's Milk Chocolate 0.918 56.49050
cij <- cor(candy_file)
library(corrplot)
corrplot 0.95 loaded
corrplot(cij)

Q22. Examining this plot what two variables are anti-correlated (i.e. have minus values)?
Fruit and chocolate
Q23. Similarly, what two variables are most positively correlated?
Chocolate and bar
pca <- prcomp(candy_file)
summary(pca)
Importance of components:
PC1 PC2 PC3 PC4 PC5 PC6 PC7
Standard deviation 14.7231 0.70241 0.47762 0.37292 0.34641 0.33614 0.30748
Proportion of Variance 0.9935 0.00226 0.00105 0.00064 0.00055 0.00052 0.00043
Cumulative Proportion 0.9935 0.99574 0.99678 0.99742 0.99797 0.99849 0.99892
PC8 PC9 PC10 PC11 PC12
Standard deviation 0.27417 0.23826 0.21435 0.18434 0.15331
Proportion of Variance 0.00034 0.00026 0.00021 0.00016 0.00011
Cumulative Proportion 0.99927 0.99953 0.99974 0.99989 1.00000
ggplot(pca$x) +
aes(PC1, PC2, label=row.names(pca$x)) +
geom_point(col=my_cols) + theme_bw()

ggplot(pca$rotation, aes(x = PC1, y = reorder(rownames(pca$rotation), PC1))) +
geom_col()

Q25. Based on your exploratory analysis, correlation findings, and PCA results, what combination of characteristics appears to make a “winning” candy? How do these different analyses (visualization, correlation, PCA) support or complement each other in reaching this conclusion?
It appears as though the analyses utilized within the lab showed that the strongest driving or winning candy are often moderately priced, chocolate-based and not fruity, and typically does include peanut and/or caramel. Reese’s peanut butter cup or general reese’s, Snickers, Twix, Kit Kat all sit right in this sweet spot, which is why they dominate winpercent.