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Authors: Derek Rogers and Abhay Sharma

Introduction:

This midterm project explores the data in Beers.csv and Breweries.csv. It answers the questions/items:

1.	How many breweries are present in each state?
2.	Merge beer data with the breweries data. Print the first 6 observations and the last six observations to check the merged file.  (RMD only, this does not need to be included in the presentation or the deck.)
3.	Address the missing values in each column.
4.	Compute the median alcohol content and international bitterness unit for each state. Plot a bar chart to compare.
5.	Which state has the maximum alcoholic (ABV) beer? Which state has the most bitter (IBU) beer?
6.	Comment on the summary statistics and distribution of the ABV variable.
7.	Is there an apparent relationship between the bitterness of the beer and its alcoholic content? Draw a scatter plot.  Make your best judgment of a relationship and EXPLAIN your answer.
8.	Budweiser would also like to investigate the difference with respect to IBU and ABV between IPAs (India Pale Ales) and other types of Ale (any beer with “Ale” in its name other than IPA).  You decide to use KNN classification to investigate this relationship.  Provide statistical evidence one way or the other. You can of course assume your audience is comfortable with percentages … KNN is very easy to understand conceptually. 
In addition, while you have decided to use KNN to investigate this relationship (KNN is required) you may also feel free to supplement your response to this question with any other methods or techniques you have learned.  Creativity and alternative solutions are always encouraged.  

Requirements:

To build and run this project open the BeerAnalysis.Rmd file in R studio and change the file paths for the Beers.csv and Breweries.csv near the top of the file.
Make sure all libraries are imported and then run all chunks of code.

Files Included: 

BeerAnalysis.Rmd - R markdown file containing analysis on Beer/Brewery datasets
BeerAnalysis.html - knitr html output of the R Markdown File
BeerAnalysisPresentation.pptx - Powerpoint deck containing presentation on the Beer analysis

Beers.csv - Beer datafile
Breweries.csv - Breweries datafile