challenge_summary: Challenge Summary

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

Challenge Summary

Description

A dataset summarising challenge_results

Usage

challenge_summary

Format

This data frame contains the following columns

category

The category of the challenge e.g. tribal, individual, individual immunity, duel, etc. This makes it easy to split out the difference types of challenges and avoid complications such as 'Team / Individual' challenges where there is a dependent outcome structure. Join to challenge_results using challenge_id, version_season and castaway_id

version

Country code for the version of the show

version_season

Version season key

season

The season number

episode

Episode number

challenge_id

Primary key to the challenge_description data set which contains features of the challenge

challenge_type

The challenge type e.g. immunity, reward, etc

outcome_type

Whether the challenge is individual or tribal. Some individual reward challenges may involve multiple castaways as the winner gets to choose who they bring along

tribe

Current tribe the castaway is on

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

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).

n_entities

Number of entities competing for the win e.g. the number of tribes, teams, or people.

n_winners

Number of winners (or winning entities) e.g. if there are two tribes there is only one winning tribe, if there are three tribes like the new era there are two winning tribes and one that goes to tribal council.

won

number of challenges won

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_(American_TV_series) https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

Examples

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
challenge_summary %>%
  filter(version_season == 46)

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