Datasets

I assembled these datasets for use in my courses.

Minneapolis Home Prices

The minneapolis_home_prices.csv file contains data on single family homes sold in Minneapolis between 2010 and 2015 from the Assessor’s Office of the City of Minneapolis.

Click here to open a web applet that visualizes Minneapolis home prices by neighborhood.

Column	Description
`salesdate`	date of sale
`salesprice`	sales price in dollars
`area`	building area in square feet
`beds`	number of beds
`baths`	number of baths
`stories`	number of stories
`yearbuilt`	year built
`neighborhood`	neighorborhood of home
`community`	community of home

Lego

The lego.csv file contains data on lego sets from the website BRICKSET.

Column	Description
`id`	set number
`name`	set name
`type`	set type (`Book`, `Collection`, `Extended`, `Gear`, `Normal`, `Other`, `Random`)
`themegroup`	set theme group
`theme`	theme of set
`subtheme`	subtheme of set
`year`	year released
`pieces`	number of pieces
`minifigs`	number of minifigs
`weight`	weight of set in Kg
`package`	type of packaging

Submarines

The subs.csv file contains data on WWII submarine war patrols in the Atlantic and Pacific from Clay Blair’s “Silent Victory”. I am still tracking down original sources and validating so these data should be used with caution.

Column	Description
`boat`	boat name
`patrol`	patrol number
`skipper`	skipper name
`class`	U.S. Naval Academy graduating class (USNR is U.S. Naval Reserve)
`days`	patrol length in days
`area`	patrol area
`year`	year of patrol
`month`	month of patrol
`war_ships`	wartime credit of number of ships
`war_tonnage`	wartime credit of tonnage
`post_ships`	postwar credit (JANAC) of number of ships
`post_tonnage`	postwar credit (JANAC) of tonnage
`departing`	patrol departure location
`mines`	notes on mines
`patrol_notes`	notes on patrol
`credit_notes`	notes on credit
`area_notes`	notes on area

Doughboys

The doughboys.csv file contains ratings of fast food chain restaurants from the doughboys audio podcast taken from Doughkipedia. Tournament-style episodes and ratings not of chain restaurants are excluded.

The top words favored by Mitch in food orders compared to Nick (in descending order of Mitchiness) are: diet, coke, pepsi, cherry, lemonade, juice, white, animal, punch, chocolate, french, large, tomato, chicken, mashed, cocacola, orange, half, strawberry, cool.

The top words favored by Nick in food orders compared to Mitch (in descending order of Nickiness) are: fruit, milkshake, caesar, salad, smoothie, peanut, vanilla, bean, soup, guacamole, ham, red, chopped, chili, cornbread, bleu, tropical, country, blue, and greens.

Click here to open a web applet that visualizes chain restaurant ratings.

Column	Description
`rater`	name of rater
`rating`	restaurant rating
`title`	title of episode
`guest`	name of guest
`place`	chain restaurant
`date`	episode date