boot_order: Boot order

In survivoR: Data from all Seasons of Survivor (US) TV Series in Tidy Format

Boot order

Description

Similar to the castaways dataset, boot_order records the order in which castaways left the game. If a player was voted out of the game, returned to the game like seasons such as Redemption Island, and then voted out again, they will have two rows in the table.

Usage

boot_order

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

version

Country code for the version of the show

version_season

Version season key

season

Season number

castaway_id

ID of the castaway (primary key). Consistent across seasons and name changes e.g. Amber Brkich / Amber Mariano. The first two letters reference the country of the version played e.g. US, AU (TBA).

castaway

Name of castaway. Generally this is the name they were most commonly referred to or nickname e.g. no one called Coach, Benjamin. He was simply Coach

episode

Episode number

day

Number of days the castaway survived. A missing value indicates they later returned to the game that season

order

Boot order. Order in which castaway was voted out e.g. 5 is the 5th person voted of the island

result

Final result

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_(American_TV_series); https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page; ack_ features from Matt Stiles https://github.com/stiles/survivor-voteoffs

Examples

library(dplyr)
castaways %>%
  filter(season == 40)

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