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    • IKEA Furniture
      • Get the data here
      • Data Dictionary
    • ikea.csv
      • Cleaning Script

    IKEA logo

    IKEA Furniture

    The data this week comes from Kaggle. Original source on IKEA

    Article about Ikea from FiveThirtyEight

    Get the data here

    # Get the Data
    
    # Read in with tidytuesdayR package 
    # Install from CRAN via: install.packages("tidytuesdayR")
    # This loads the readme and all the datasets for the week of interest
    
    # Either ISO-8601 date or year/week works!
    
    tuesdata <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load('2020-11-03')
    tuesdata <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load(2020, week = 45)
    
    ikea.csv <- tuesdata$ikea.csv
    
    # Or read in the data manually
    
    ikea <- readr::read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/main/data/2020/2020-11-03/ikea.csv')

    Data Dictionary

    ikea.csv

    variable class description
    item_id double item id wich can be used later to merge with other IKEA dataframes
    name character the commercial name of items
    category character the furniture category that the item belongs to (Sofas, beds, chairs, Trolleys,…)
    price double the current price in Saudi Riyals as it is shown in the website by 4/20/2020
    old_price character the price of item in Saudi Riyals before discount
    sellable_online logical Sellable online TRUE or FALSE
    link character the web link of the item
    other_colors character if other colors are available for the item, or just one color as displayed in the website (Boolean)
    short_description character a brief description of the item
    designer character The name of the designer who designed the item. this is extracted from the full_description column.
    depth double Depth of the item in Centimeter
    height double Height of the item in Centimeter
    width double Width of the item in Centimeter

    Cleaning Script

    No cleaning today!