Tidy Tuesday: Crop Production

Look at the available datasets

library(tidytuesdayR)
#This will open up in the help window
tidytuesdayR::tt_available()

What was your dataset?

Load your dataset in with the function below. The input is the date the dataset was issued. You should be able to get this from the tt_available() function.

#incoming data comes in as a list
datasets <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load("2020-09-01")

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    Downloading file 1 of 5: `arable_land_pin.csv`
    Downloading file 2 of 5: `cereal_crop_yield_vs_fertilizer_application.csv`
    Downloading file 3 of 5: `cereal_yields_vs_tractor_inputs_in_agriculture.csv`
    Downloading file 4 of 5: `key_crop_yields.csv`
    Downloading file 5 of 5: `land_use_vs_yield_change_in_cereal_production.csv`

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#show the names of the individual datasets
names(datasets)

[1] "arable_land_pin"                               
[2] "cereal_crop_yield_vs_fertilizer_application"   
[3] "cereal_yields_vs_tractor_inputs_in_agriculture"
[4] "key_crop_yields"                               
[5] "land_use_vs_yield_change_in_cereal_production" 

Key Crop Yields

key_crop_yields <- datasets$key_crop_yields

Visdat

visdat::vis_dat(key_crop_yields)

Skimr

skimr::skim(key_crop_yields)

Data summary

Name	key_crop_yields
Number of rows	13075
Number of columns	14
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Column type frequency:
character	2
numeric	12
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Group variables	None

Variable type: character

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	empty	n_unique	whitespace
Entity	0	1.00	4	39	0	249	0
Code	1919	0.85	3	8	0	214	0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	mean	sd	p0	p25	p50	p75	p100	hist
Year	0	1.00	1990.37	16.73	1961.00	1976.00	1991.00	2005.00	2018.00	▇▆▇▇▇
Wheat (tonnes per hectare)	4974	0.62	2.43	1.69	0.00	1.23	1.99	3.12	10.67	▇▅▂▁▁
Rice (tonnes per hectare)	4604	0.65	3.16	1.85	0.20	1.77	2.74	4.16	10.68	▇▇▃▁▁
Maize (tonnes per hectare)	2301	0.82	3.02	3.13	0.03	1.14	1.83	3.92	36.76	▇▁▁▁▁
Soybeans (tonnes per hectare)	7114	0.46	1.45	0.75	0.00	0.86	1.33	1.90	5.95	▇▇▂▁▁
Potatoes (tonnes per hectare)	3059	0.77	15.40	9.29	0.84	8.64	13.41	20.05	75.30	▇▅▁▁▁
Beans (tonnes per hectare)	5066	0.61	1.09	0.82	0.03	0.59	0.83	1.35	9.18	▇▁▁▁▁
Peas (tonnes per hectare)	6840	0.48	1.48	1.01	0.04	0.72	1.15	1.99	7.16	▇▃▁▁▁
Cassava (tonnes per hectare)	5887	0.55	9.34	5.11	1.00	5.55	8.67	11.99	38.58	▇▇▁▁▁
Barley (tonnes per hectare)	6342	0.51	2.23	1.50	0.09	1.05	1.88	3.02	9.15	▇▆▂▁▁
Cocoa beans (tonnes per hectare)	8466	0.35	0.39	0.28	0.00	0.24	0.36	0.49	3.43	▇▁▁▁▁
Bananas (tonnes per hectare)	4166	0.68	15.20	12.08	0.66	5.94	11.78	20.79	77.59	▇▃▁▁▁

What was your question?

Given your inital exploration of the data, what was the question you wanted to answer?

How have key crop yields changed over time?

What were your findings?

Put your findings and your visualization code here.

key_crop_yields %>%
  tidyr::pivot_longer(cols = contains("(tonnes"), names_to="crop",
                      values_to="Yield") %>%
  ggplot() + aes(x=Year, y= Yield, group=crop, color=crop) + geom_line() + facet_wrap(~Entity)

Warning: Removed 669 rows containing missing values (`geom_line()`).

Let’s try and estimate whether a country is increasing its yield or decreaing its yield over time. I’ll use lm() to run a linear regression on each entity in the data, and use broom::tidy() to pull out the estimates of the slopes.

model_results <- key_crop_yields %>%
  tidyr::pivot_longer(cols = contains("(tonnes"), names_to="crop",
                      values_to="Yield") %>%
  mutate(crop=str_replace(crop,"\\(tonnes per hectare\\)", "")) %>%
  tidyr::drop_na(Yield) %>%
  nest_by(Entity, crop) %>%
  mutate(num_points = nrow(data)) %>%
  mutate(model=list(lm(Yield ~ Year, data=data))) %>%
  summarize(num_points, broom::tidy(model)) %>%
  filter(term == "Year") %>%
  arrange(Entity, desc(estimate))

Warning: There were 2 warnings in `summarize()`.
The first warning was:
ℹ In argument: `broom::tidy(model)`.
ℹ In row 514.
Caused by warning in `summary.lm()`:
! essentially perfect fit: summary may be unreliable
ℹ Run `dplyr::last_dplyr_warnings()` to see the 1 remaining warning.

Warning: Returning more (or less) than 1 row per `summarise()` group was deprecated in
dplyr 1.1.0.
ℹ Please use `reframe()` instead.
ℹ When switching from `summarise()` to `reframe()`, remember that `reframe()`
  always returns an ungrouped data frame and adjust accordingly.

`summarise()` has grouped output by 'Entity', 'crop'. You can override using
the `.groups` argument.

model_results

# A tibble: 1,691 × 8
# Groups:   Entity, crop [1,691]
   Entity      crop       num_points term  estimate std.error statistic  p.value
   <chr>       <chr>           <int> <chr>    <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl>    <dbl>
 1 Afghanistan "Potatoes…         58 Year   0.102    0.0197        5.15 3.45e- 6
 2 Afghanistan "Rice "            58 Year   0.0238   0.00253       9.40 4.10e-13
 3 Afghanistan "Wheat "           58 Year   0.0169   0.00199       8.52 1.10e-11
 4 Afghanistan "Maize "           58 Year   0.00987  0.00272       3.63 6.23e- 4
 5 Afghanistan "Barley "          58 Year   0.00711  0.00198       3.60 6.73e- 4
 6 Africa      "Potatoes…         58 Year   0.121    0.00630      19.1  3.20e-26
 7 Africa      "Cassava "         58 Year   0.0742   0.00305      24.4  1.79e-31
 8 Africa      "Bananas "         58 Year   0.0724   0.00653      11.1  9.80e-16
 9 Africa      "Wheat "           58 Year   0.0369   0.00123      30.0  3.39e-36
10 Africa      "Soybeans…         58 Year   0.0172   0.000931     18.4  1.89e-25
# ℹ 1,681 more rows

Looking at the United States, there are mostly increases in crop yield.

model_results %>%
  filter(Entity == "United States") 

# A tibble: 9 × 8
# Groups:   Entity, crop [9]
  Entity        crop      num_points term  estimate std.error statistic  p.value
  <chr>         <chr>          <int> <chr>    <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl>    <dbl>
1 United States "Potatoe…         58 Year   0.497    0.00795      62.6  1.61e-53
2 United States "Bananas…         58 Year   0.215    0.0207       10.4  1.28e-14
3 United States "Maize "          58 Year   0.121    0.00554      21.8  5.14e-29
4 United States "Rice "           58 Year   0.0770   0.00239      32.2  7.44e-38
5 United States "Barley "         58 Year   0.0355   0.00169      21.0  2.93e-28
6 United States "Soybean…         58 Year   0.0295   0.00138      21.5  1.07e-28
7 United States "Wheat "          58 Year   0.0256   0.00129      19.8  5.68e-27
8 United States "Beans "          58 Year   0.0126   0.000812     15.6  5.11e-22
9 United States "Peas "           58 Year   0.00902  0.00375       2.40 1.96e- 2

We can rank the top producers by crop:

ranked_by_slope <- model_results %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  group_by(crop) %>%
  summarize(Entity, crop, num_points, estimate=signif(estimate, digits = 3), rank = row_number(desc(estimate))) %>%
  arrange(crop, rank)

Warning: Returning more (or less) than 1 row per `summarise()` group was deprecated in
dplyr 1.1.0.
ℹ Please use `reframe()` instead.
ℹ When switching from `summarise()` to `reframe()`, remember that `reframe()`
  always returns an ungrouped data frame and adjust accordingly.

`summarise()` has grouped output by 'crop'. You can override using the
`.groups` argument.

ranked_by_slope

# A tibble: 1,691 × 5
# Groups:   crop [11]
   crop       Entity          num_points estimate  rank
   <chr>      <chr>                <int>    <dbl> <int>
 1 "Bananas " South Korea              6    6.56      1
 2 "Bananas " Indonesia               58    1.27      2
 3 "Bananas " Peru                    14    1.25      3
 4 "Bananas " Syria                   49    1.01      4
 5 "Bananas " South Africa            58    0.947     5
 6 "Bananas " Turkey                  58    0.839     6
 7 "Bananas " Southern Africa         58    0.835     7
 8 "Bananas " Cote d'Ivoire           58    0.749     8
 9 "Bananas " Guatemala               58    0.723     9
10 "Bananas " Morocco                 40    0.654    10
# ℹ 1,681 more rows

Finally, let’s do histograms by crop:

ranked_by_slope %>%
  ggplot() +
  aes(x=estimate, fill=crop) +
  geom_histogram() +
  geom_vline(xintercept = 0, lty =2) +
  labs(title = "Crop productivity across countries (tonnes/hectare/year)",
       subtitle = "Positive values = increase, Negative values = decrease") +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.position = "none") +
  facet_wrap(~crop, scales = "free")

`stat_bin()` using `bins = 30`. Pick better value with `binwidth`.

Warning: Removed 3 rows containing non-finite values (`stat_bin()`).

What did you learn?

Were there any lessons you learned? Any cool packages you want to talk about?