Obesity and Possible Links

Purpose

See if there is a correlation between the number and type of restaurants and obesity rate in the top 300 cities by population

• Additonal questions to address
  • Does the amount of restaurants in a city equal a higher obesity rate
  • Can the type of restaurant in a city be a predictor of a citys economic standing
  • Does a city with a higher economic standing have a lower obesity rate
  • Is there a particular correlation between cuisine/type of restaurant and obesity
  • Is there a correlation between economic status and cuisine

Process and Results

Data collection utilizing Census.gov and NAICS.com

Cleaning data in Jupyter Lab utilizing Pandas

Finalizing data clean up

Plotting data after data clean up

Summary

No links were found between the number and type of restaurants in a given geographic area and obesity rates

Contributors

• Quentin Sloboda - https://github.com/qwsloboda
• Liliana Ilut - https://github.com/liliana-ilut