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https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jnn7to/distribution_of_snickers_letters_in_my_halloween/


This scratched an itch in my brain, and I have always wondered about doing this but was always too lazy or distracted by the candy. I assume the source came from a fun-sized candy bag, and the original source of the data is delicious chocolate (haha). I think the presentation is genius—it perfectly shows the misalignment and frequency of the letters in 'Snickers'.

If I were to do the same thing, I would approach it a little differently. First, I wouldn’t just compare one bag. I’d increase the sample size to around 10 bags and try to find a pattern. I would also create a table, graph, or chart to compare the frequency of each bag and each letter. Based on the pattern I find, I’d move on to get bags from a different areas (out of state or even from different countries) and check if a similar pattern exists in places that get different shipments, or if the letter count changes by location.

Finally, I’d take the experiment further by buying a candy bag from each state and analyzing whether vowels or consonants are more frequent in that specific state. This could be a fun experiment, and finding patterns would be super interesting but again, it all might just be random and pointless (yay).



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