Dog Breed Data Sets
So, you found the perfect breed to match your lifestyle- what next?
I started digging for data pertaining to the most popular dog breeds and found a lot of valuable raw data files on Kaggle. The data set referenced below contains over 21,000 rows/entries of breeds with 7 columns ranging from license type, breed, color, dog name, owner zip code, expiration year of the license and valid date of the license. In this particular set there are many instances of duplicate information, so I will work to clean up the content from the first 1,000 entries.
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Though it is interesting to see the change in breed popularity from year to year, I think the data could be improved to include the dog’s temperament and basic breed characteristics to better assist with finding the right dog for your lifestyle.
Below are the top 10 breeds in the US from 2017:
