The "Candy" Dashboard

by Kinley Ly

For day 4 of Dashboard Week, we get to see candy data! Looking at the data was a little… Let's say different than the other datasets we have gotten before.

Let's start with the many issues from the dataset before we talk about the dashboard. Firstly, the actual data and fields is essentially a big mess of clutter.


Lets list out the issues one by one.

  1. Some data is null because it was optional to answer the questions.
  2. For Country and State, survey takers were able to freely type down the data rather than choosing from a selection of choices, resulting in misspelling, punctuation errors, and completely unrelated answers.
  3. The definition of candy has been stretched extremely thin for the amount of “candy” choices.
  4. The inclusion of extra “questions” is extremely confusing.
  5. EVERYTHING in this data

You don’t have to take my word for it, take a look for yourself.

See my Dashboard here as well!