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The gardenR package contains data collected by Lisa Lendway from her vegetable garden, starting in the summer of 2020. Data from the summer of 2021 was added 2022-01-29 (finally!). The data were used in her Introduction to Data Science course at Macalester College to introduce many concepts. For examples, see the tutorials for the course.
Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. There are various moderating variables that affect all data, many of which might not have been captured in these datasets. As such, our suggestion is to use the data provided to practice your data tidying and plotting techniques, and to consider for yourself what nuances might underlie these relationships.
Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language.
label of plot where vegetables were planted - see garden_coords dataset (in the package) for more info
vegetable
character
type of vegetable planted
variety
character
variety of vegetable planted, usually according to the information on the seed package, but sometimes inferred by Lisa and sometimes unknown or reseeded from last year's plants
number_seeds_planted
numeric
the exact number or a guess at how many seeds/plants were planted
date
Date
date the vegetable was planted
number_seeds_exact
logical
if number_seeds_planted is exact, this is TRUE; if it was a guess, then this is FALSE
notes
character
mostly missing but intially created just in case
planting_2021.csv
variable
class
description
date
Date
date the vegetable was planted
vegetable
character
type of vegetable planted
variety
character
variety of vegetable planted, usually according to the information on the seed package, but sometimes inferred by Lisa and sometimes unknown or reseeded from last year's plants
plot
character
label of plot where vegetables were planted - see garden_coords dataset (in the package) for more info
number_seeds_planted
numeric
the exact number or a guess at how many seeds/plants were planted
number_seeds_exact
logical
if number_seeds_planted is exact, this is TRUE; if it was a guess, then this is FALSE
notes
character
mostly missing but intially created just in case
harvest_2020.csv
variable
class
description
vegetable
character
type of vegetable planted
variety
character
variety of vegetable planted, usually according to the information on the seed package, but sometimes inferred by Lisa and sometimes unknown or reseeded from last year's plants
date
Date
date the vegetable was harvested
weight
numeric
weight harvested in grams
units
character
all "grams" - this variable was originally created in case larger vegetables were weighed in other units but there was no need
harvest_2021.csv
variable
class
description
vegetable
character
type of vegetable planted
variety
character
variety of vegetable planted, usually according to the information on the seed package, but sometimes inferred by Lisa and sometimes unknown or reseeded from last year's plants
date
Date
date the vegetable was harvested
weight
numeric
weight harvested in grams
units
character
all "grams" - this variable was originally created in case larger vegetables were weighed in other units but there was no need
spending_2020.csv
variable
class
description
vegetable
character
type of vegetable planted
variety
character
variety of vegetable planted, usually according to the information on the seed package, but sometimes inferred by Lisa and sometimes unknown or reseeded from last year's plants
brand
character
brand of seed or plant
eggplant_item_number
numeric
item number of item at Eggplant, the store where most of the seeds were purchased
price
numeric
raw price - no taxes
price_with_tax
numeric
price with taxes
spending_2021.csv
variable
class
description
vegetable
character
type of vegetable planted
variety
character
variety of vegetable planted, usually according to the information on the seed package, but sometimes inferred by Lisa and sometimes unknown or reseeded from last year's plants