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Haunted Places in the United States

Halloween is coming soon, so we're exploring a spooky dataset: a compilation of Haunted Places in the United States. The dataset was compiled by Tim Renner, using The Shadowlands Haunted Places Index, and shared on data.world.

We're also using this dataset as a reminder that several R packages for spatial data are heading to the graveyard next week. Don't be tricked by their demise!

The Data

# Option 1: tidytuesdayR package 
## install.packages("tidytuesdayR")

tuesdata <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load('2023-10-10')
## OR
tuesdata <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load(2023, week = 41)

haunted_places <- tuesdata$haunted_places

# Option 2: Read directly from GitHub

haunted_places <- readr::read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2023/2023-10-10/haunted_places.csv')

How to Participate

  • 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.
  • Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag.

Data Dictionary

haunted_places.csv

variable class description
city character The city where the place is located.
country character The country where the place is located (always "United States")
description character A text description of the place. The amount of detail in these descriptions is highly variable.
location character A title for the haunted place.
state character The US state where the place is located.
state_abbrev character The two-letter abbreviation for the state.
longitude double Longitude of the place.
latitude double Latitude of the place.
city_longitude double Longitude of the city center.
city_latitude double Latitude of the city center.

Cleaning Script

Data downloaded directly from https://query.data.world/s/glc736mqf4dxrqe6nbsamblqndemb6?dws=00000