Avocados are everywhere lately. Almost every brunch menu has avocado toast. Many restaurants offer fresh-made guacamole at your table. And way too many people have been asking me if I want to add avocado to my burrito/sandwich/salad/pizza (pro tip: it costs extra!). There are even commericials for avocados.
I have been wondering why this has been happening. I have a few guesses: government subsidies, improvements in agriculture, a more health concious population, economic benefits for central/south America. And I have also been wondering if it’s just me or if avocados have truly gained popularity and if so, what did that gain look like?
So, when I came across a dataset on <a href=“https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/data-is-plural-2018-09-26-edition”, target="_blank">Avocado sales, I had to take a look.
Here is what the data look like
avo## # A tibble: 197 x 11
## Date AveragePrice TotalVolume SmallHass LargeHass XLHass
## <date> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 2015-01-04 0.95 31324278. 12357161. 13624083. 8.44e5
## 2 2015-01-11 1.01 29063543. 11544811. 12134773. 8.67e5
## 3 2015-01-18 1.03 29043459. 11858139. 11701948. 8.31e5
## 4 2015-01-25 1.04 28470311. 12167445. 10734653. 7.68e5
## 5 2015-02-01 0.89 44655462. 18933038. 18956480. 1.38e6
## 6 2015-02-08 0.95 32137333. 13308193. 13381348. 7.38e5
## 7 2015-02-15 1.03 28012521. 12626615. 9783490. 8.46e5
## 8 2015-02-22 1.02 29936730. 12628562. 11354282. 9.37e5
## 9 2015-03-01 0.97 32994014. 13282223. 13733124. 1.07e6
## 10 2015-03-08 1.02 30094699. 13013750. 10973973. 8.34e5
## # … with 187 more rows, and 5 more variables: `Total Bags` <dbl>, `Small
## # Bags` <dbl>, `Large Bags` <dbl>, `XLarge Bags` <dbl>, Year <dbl>And here is a simple interactive <a href=“https://shiny.rstudio.com/”, target="_blank">Shiny R App for exploring linear relationships among price, volume, and types of avocados over time.
<iframe src = “https://golnaz.shinyapps.io/avocado_app/” , height = 500, width = 900>