Austin food critic ratings
The data in “afc.csv” (dowload here) contains the following information about 104 restaurants scattered around central Austin:
- Name: the name of the restaurant
- Neighborhood: where the restaurant is located
- Type: the type of food served at the restaurant
- FoodScore: a numerical rating of the food (0–10) assigned by food critics from the Austin newspaper, with 10 being best.
- FeelScore: a numerical rating of the atmosphere (0–10) assigned assigned by those same food critics, with 10 being best.
- Price: average price of a meal at the restaurant, including tax, tips, and drinks
Some questions we’ll answer today:
- Describe the distribution of meal prices. Give an 80% interval for the meal price of a randomly selected restaurant.
- Which are the two most expensive neighorhoods, on average? Which are the two cheapest? How did you judge this?
- Which seems to predict the price of a meal better: the food quality, or the atmosphere? How did you judge this?
- Are there any restaurants that seem like an exceptional value (high quality for the price)?
- Does the relationship between the food quality and price appear to be the same in every neighborhood? If not, how does it seem to vary?