Exploring the Intensity of Hot Ones Challenge Sauces
Crafting the Heatmap: Dive into Creating Heatmaps with R and ggplot2
Last week’s #TidyTuesday data was centered around the Youtube show Hot Ones Challenge. The show pits celebrities against hot sauces of increasing spiciness. As the celebrity eats hot wings with each hot sauce, they are interviewed about life and their careers.
I zeroed in on the Scoville score of each sauce, as it is an indicator of the intensity of the sauce’s heat. Each season, the show uses 10 sauces of increasing intensity. The show has 20 seasons, so that is a total of 200 hot sauces. After a bit of consideration, I decided to create a heatmap of the hot sauces by sauce number and season.
Heatmaps are a fantastic way to visualize a lot of data when you have 3 dimensions. The x-axis and y-axis are breakdowns of two variables and the color in the heatmap changes as the value of the third variable changes.
