How Unhealthy Is Your Starbucks Drink?
Using data science to analyze the latest Starbucks menu
It’s every coffee drinker's favorite time of the year! With PSL season underway, the Starbucks menu has been updated to include all sorts of fall goodies. As a Starbucks connoisseur myself, I’m back to switching up my daily order to get into the autumn spirit.
Whether your goal is to satisfy your sweet tooth or fulfill your much-needed caffeine, Starbucks has you covered. The coffee chain has an extensive list of sugary and caffeinated beverages that can satisfy anything you are craving for right when you walk through the door (or pull up to the drive-thru). Using Starbucks nutrition data scraped from its website, let’s take a look at how impactful your cup of coffee is in your daily diet, and tips to make your drink healthier.
About the data
Starbucks provides a nutrition analysis of its menu items on its website to help you balance your Starbucks order with other foods you eat. Their goal is to provide you with the information you need to make sensible decisions about balance, variety, and moderation in your diet.
I first scraped JSON data from the online Starbucks drinks menu and saved it as a CSV on September 2, 2020. The data file contains the following variables: drink…
