The raw data behind the story "A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-statistical-analysis-of-the-work-of-bob-ross/. An analysis using this data was contributed by Jonathan Bouchet as a package vignette at https://fivethirtyeightdata.github.io/fivethirtyeightdata/articles/bob_ross.html.

bob_ross

Format

A data frame with 403 rows representing episodes and 71 variables:

episode

Episode code

season

Season number

episode_num

Episode number

title

Title of episode

apple_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

aurora_borealis

Present (1) or not (0)

barn

Present (1) or not (0)

beach

Present (1) or not (0)

boat

Present (1) or not (0)

bridge

Present (1) or not (0)

building

Present (1) or not (0)

bushes

Present (1) or not (0)

cabin

Present (1) or not (0)

cactus

Present (1) or not (0)

circle_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

cirrus

Present (1) or not (0)

cliff

Present (1) or not (0)

clouds

Present (1) or not (0)

conifer

Present (1) or not (0)

cumulus

Present (1) or not (0)

deciduous

Present (1) or not (0)

diane_andre

Present (1) or not (0)

dock

Present (1) or not (0)

double_oval_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

farm

Present (1) or not (0)

fence

Present (1) or not (0)

fire

Present (1) or not (0)

florida_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

flowers

Present (1) or not (0)

fog

Present (1) or not (0)

framed

Present (1) or not (0)

grass

Present (1) or not (0)

guest

Present (1) or not (0)

half_circle_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

half_oval_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

hills

Present (1) or not (0)

lake

Present (1) or not (0)

lakes

Present (1) or not (0)

lighthouse

Present (1) or not (0)

mill

Present (1) or not (0)

moon

Present (1) or not (0)

mountain

Present (1) or not (0)

mountains

Present (1) or not (0)

night

Present (1) or not (0)

ocean

Present (1) or not (0)

oval_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

palm_trees

Present (1) or not (0)

path

Present (1) or not (0)

person

Present (1) or not (0)

portrait

Present (1) or not (0)

rectangle_3d_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

rectangular_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

river

Present (1) or not (0)

rocks

Present (1) or not (0)

seashell_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

snow

Present (1) or not (0)

snowy_mountain

Present (1) or not (0)

split_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

steve_ross

Present (1) or not (0)

structure

Present (1) or not (0)

sun

Present (1) or not (0)

tomb_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

tree

Present (1) or not (0)

trees

Present (1) or not (0)

triple_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

waterfall

Present (1) or not (0)

waves

Present (1) or not (0)

windmill

Present (1) or not (0)

window_frame

Present (1) or not (0)

winter

Present (1) or not (0)

wood_framed

Present (1) or not (0)

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/bob-ross

Examples

# To convert data frame to tidy data (long) format, run: library(dplyr) library(tidyr) library(stringr) bob_ross_tidy <- bob_ross %>% pivot_longer(-c(episode, season, episode_num, title), names_to = "object", values_to = "present") %>% mutate(present = as.logical(present)) %>% arrange(episode, object)