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Farmers Markets - Only for the privileged?

I come from a low income area. The concept of a farmers market was alien to me growing up. In the late 2000s health trends began to spike and farmers markets began to see an increase in customer traffic.  I found a dataset on Kaggle of all the existing farmers markets in the US and while learning about tableau maps and geospatial data had an idea for exploratory data visualization.

This Bud's for you

Senior Year. The final stretch of college. Now is the time to get your cap and gown, take  all sorts of pictures and do you last bit of partying. Senioritis is in full swing and it's time to relax, right? My final senior semester included distance races, conferences in the White House, independent data analysis projects (which we'll take a look at later), independent studying of three languages, a full course load and an internship. I had the privilege of working of Anheuser Busch InBev in their tech explore department out of the Newark Brewery. I grew up outside of Newark and it was surreal going to work at a place I'd always see looming in the distance in the south Newark skies. I had the usual duties an intern had, getting lunch, managing partners working with the tech explore team, general office upkeep. My purpose there, however was to work on a dataset that I would present as my capstone project I met Scott Pemberton the brewmaster at the plant manager at t...