Sample of Lego Sets

Description

Data about Lego Sets for sale. Based on JSDSE article by Anna Peterson and Laura Ziegler Data from their article was scrapped from multiple sources including brickset.com

Usage

lego_sample

Format

A data frame with 75 rows and 15 variables.

item_number

Set Item number

set_name

Name of the set.

theme

Set theme: Duplo, City or Friends.

pieces

Number of pieces in the set.

price

Recommended retail price from LEGO.

amazon_price

Price of the set at Amazon.

year

Year that it was produced.

ages

LEGO's recommended ages of children for the set

pages

Pages in the instruction booklet.

minifigures

Number of LEGO people in the data, if unknown "NA" was recorded.

packaging

Type of packaging: bag, box, etc.

weight

Weight of the set of LEGOS in pounds and kilograms.

unique_pieces

Number of pieces classified as unique in the instruction manual.

size

Size of the lego pieces: Large if safe for small children and Small for older children.

Source

Peterson, A. D., & Ziegler, L. (2021). Building a multiple linear regression model with LEGO brick data. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 29(3),1-7. doi:10.1080/26939169.2021.1946450

BrickInstructions.com. (n.d.). Retrieved February 2, 2021 from

Brickset. (n.d.). BRICKSET: Your LEGO® set guide. Retrieved February 2, 2021 from

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

lego_sample |>
  filter(theme == "Friends" | theme == "City") |>
  ggplot(aes(x = pieces, y = amazon_price)) +
  geom_point(alpha = 0.3) +
  labs(
    x = "Pieces in the Set",
    y = "Amazon Price",
    title = "Amazon Price vs Number of Pieces in Lego Sets",
    subtitle = "Friends and City Themes"
  )