UK Food Hygiene Ratings

An exploration of food hygiene ratings in the UK.

Description

Following on from the farnham-food project, this project sets out to explore food hygiene ratings across the UK. The UK Food Standards Agency publishes full ratings data for every local authority in England and Wales. An explainer on the UK's Food Hygiene Rating Scheme can be found here.

Getting started

Data

• UK food hygiene ratings by local authority published by the FSA. Data is refreshed daily.

Packages

This project uses renv for package management. To set up the packages needed for this project run the following code in the console:

install.packages("renv")
renv::init()

Author

• Clare Gibson - surreydatagirl@gmail.com

Licence

This project is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal licence. See the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgements

The following articles and resources have inspired or guided this project:

• Converting nested XML to dataframe in R - a tidyverse approach by Urban Data Palette
• How to create a waffle chart using data densification by VizWiz