SDS 192 Project 3
Maps
Plot 1
Plot 2
Plot 3
Blog post
For this assignment, we were interested in seeing what coffee chain, Dunkin or Starbucks, is most popular in the New England area. We define New England as Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The data we chose to look at for this assignment was location information of Dunkin and Starbucks coffee shops. We found both datasets on Kaggle. Our Dunkin data contains information of each store’s address, phone number, and hours. The Starbucks data contains the location’s address, phone number, store name and number, and ownership type. The Starbucks dataset contains worldwide data. We also utilized the tidycensus data to obtain population data for the New England area. Utilizing this information, we aimed to see in which states, in terms of per capita, each chain was more popular, and which chain was most popular overall.
Our first map looks at Dunkin’ locations in New England. It shows that in New England there are the most Dunkin’ locations per capita in Rhode Island, followed closely by Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The number of Dunkin’ locations per capita is slightly lower in Connecticut and Maine, and the lowest in Vermont.
Our second map looks at Starbucks locations per capita in New England. It shows that Starbucks locations are concentrated in cities in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island like Boston, Hartford, New Haven, and Providence. Even taking population into account, the Starbucks locations per capita are highest in those three states, followed by Maine, New Hampshire, and finally Vermont.
Our final map compares the number of Dunkin’ locations in a state to the number of Starbucks locations in the state. This map shows that every New England state has more Dunkin’ locations than Starbucks locations. The difference is highest by far in Massachusetts, wth 767 more Dunkin’ locations than Starbucks locations. This is followed by Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, and finally Vermont (with only 38 more Dunkin’ locations).