| day | tea_name | biscuit_name | reviewer | tea_score_out_of_10 | biscuit_score_out_of_10 | combination_score_out_of_10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Blend | Chocolossus | Sofia | 10 | 4 | 1 |
| 1 | Royal Blend | Chocolossus | Kurtis | 9 | 8 | 2 |
| 1 | Royal Blend | Chocolossus | Skye | 10 | 6 | 7 |
| 1 | Royal Blend | Chocolossus | Laura | 9 | 9.5 | 7 |
Project Introduction
For a bit of festive fun 🎄, I built a flexdashboard from Fortnum & Mason’s advert calendar ratings. Participants included:
Sofia Costa, resident wordsmith
Laura da Costa Williams, resident chef, with green fingers
Skye da Costa Williams, resident witch, with crotchet hooks
Me, resident R-nerd
Fortnum & Mason was established in 1707, during that time it has been known for many things, including specialising in tin goods and becoming a post office. Today it’s known for afternoon tea and food hampers. Their 2024 advent calendar for two consisted of two biscuits and two accompanying teas per day.
Data
We all rated the biscuit, tea, and the pairing out of 10, recording our results in a dependable spreadsheet. After which I ingested and after a few steps created a flexdashboard. You can check these steps in this repo.
An idea of the data
Dashboard
A few navigation notes:
There are three tabs at the top: Tea, Biscuit, and Pairing
Each tab has:
3 static value boxes: Best name, Best score, Average score
An interactive line chart with hover functionality and click / doubleclick legend values
An interactive bar chart, best used by hovering over a row and comparing values. The lower the value the closer that person scored. This was used to determine who had similar taste buds.
Here is the Advent Dashboard
Notes
There was an issue of same scoring Tea, Biscuit, or pairing. The flexdashboard would push all other boxes out to accommodate multiple values. Luckily, in the end there was non.
It was a kind-of rush job, I wanted to show the dashboard close to finishing the advent calendars.
I showed the dashboard to all participants, were they interested? Well for 10 minutes until Christmas dinner was mentioned. Who can blame them 🤤.
Acknowledgements
Participants for going along with this!
r-bloggers.com for the reach, platform, and content
Packages and package maintainer(s):
- janitor | Sam Firke
- tidyverse | Hadley Wickham
- plotly | Carson Sievert
- DT | Joe Cheng