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Zagat is a public survey where anyone can provide scores to a restaurant. The scores from the general public are then gathered to produce ratings. This dataset contains a list of 168 NYC restaurants and their Zagat Ratings.

Usage

nyc

Format

A data frame with 168 observations on the following 6 variables.

restaurant

Name of the restaurant.

price

Price of a mean for two, with drinks, in US $.

food

Zagat rating for food.

decor

Zagat rating for decor.

service

Zagat rating for service.

east

Indicator variable for location of the restaurant. 0 = west of 5th Avenue, 1 = east of 5th Avenue

Details

For each category the scales are as follows:

0 - 9: poor to fair 10 - 15: fair to good 16 - 19: good to very good 20 - 25: very good to excellent 25 - 30: extraordinary to perfection

Examples

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

location_labs <- c("West", "East")
names(location_labs) <- c(0, 1)

ggplot(nyc, mapping = aes(x = price, group = east, fill = east)) +
  geom_boxplot(alpha = 0.5) +
  facet_grid(east ~ ., labeller = labeller(east = location_labs)) +
  labs(
    title = "Is food more expensive east of 5th Avenue?",
    x = "Price (US$)"
  ) +
  guides(fill = "none") +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(axis.text.y = element_blank())