Dataset Resources

[rpodcast]

Lego Bricks

Download Links:

https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2022/2022-09-06

https://rebrickable.com/downloads/

Predictive Analytics

• Julia Silge's YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s7fI4cl2C8&t=150s
• Julia's blog post: https://juliasilge.com/blog/lego-sets/
• Exploratory and Predictive Analytics of User Preferences from Kaggle LEGO-toys Datasets using Spark ML https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/1099/1/012019/pdf
• Building a Multiple Linear Regression Model with LEGO Brick Data https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26939169.2021.1946450
• Simple Linear Regression: LEGO data set https://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/686301_35e37ae2f4db40019771a69188a96d80.html
• Creating a Brick Empire Through Data Visualization and Analytics https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/ited.2023.0288ca
• More simple linear regression https://www.kaggle.com/code/josephstreifel/lego-data-analysis
• A Bayesian Analysis of LEGO prices with Python https://austinrochford.com/posts/2021-06-10-lego-pymc3.html

Descriptive statistics / visualizations

• David Robinson's Tidy Tuesday screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTWkJrvfRBc
• Finding LEGO treasure using data analytics https://kidsindata.com/blog/lego-treasure-with-data
• Three decades of LEGO: https://medium.com/@michaeltosicde/three-decades-of-lego-a-data-science-project-2842c778e088
  https://github.com/shukkkur/Exploring-The-History-of-Lego
  https://medium.com/@beananalytics_/exploring-the-rebrickable-lego-dataset-python-9f95144be8f1
  https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/exploratory-analysis-on-lego-dataset-8967e37fc5dd
  https://goodboychan.github.io/python/datacamp/data_science/2020/08/17/01-Exploring-67-years-of-LEGO.html
  https://yiren-wang.com/2019/06/06/the-colorful-lego/
  https://mode.com/blog/lego-data-analysis/
  https://medium.com/@Christophe_Ol/lego-analysis-dataset-with-power-bi-b5dad228cb41

Extra posts (not as useful)

Additional Kaggle data analyses https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rtatman/lego-database
https://www.cathrinewilhelmsen.net/ingest-explore-lego-datasets-using-azure-synapse-analytics/

[mthomas-ketchbrook]

I landed three of the LEGO datasets (inventories, inventory_sets, and sets) in a public AWS s3 bucket today. I also added a file that shows how to establish a connection to the s3 bucket and pull down the data directly from s3.

The script also contains some logic for automatically posting the Parquet data to s3, but I couldn't get this working... I ended up writing the .parquet files out locally and manually uploading them to s3.