🍦 Overview

This dataset contains details (including ingredients), images, and reviews of 241 ice cream flavors across 4 brands (Ben & Jerry's, Häagen-Dazs, Breyers, and Talenti). There are a total of 21,674 reviews, with each review containing star ratings and text. The data was collected directly from the brand websites: (i) https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/ice-cream-pints, (ii) https://www.haagendazs.us/products, (iii) https://www.breyers.com/us/en/products.html, (iv) https://www.talentigelato.com/product-category/talenti-gelato-flavors. Below we describe the three components to this dataset.

1. products.csv -- Descriptive information about each flavor such as: the flavor name, description, average rating, and ingredients list.
   • the column key matches the column key in reviews.csv and matches the file name in the images/ directory.
2. reviews.csv -- Reviews for each flavor. The review information includes: review author, review date, stars (out of 5), review text, upvotes/downvotes (helpful yes/no), etc.
3. images/ -- The product images.

There are five main directories. Four are for the individual brands: bj/=Ben & Jerry's, hd/=Häagen-Dazs, breyers/=Breyers, talenti/=Talenti. A fifth directory, combined/, contains the merged data. However, since the data reported between the websites is slightly different, there are several NA values in the merged data.

🍦 Uses

There are several uses for this dataset. You could: (i) determine which flavors are most popular, (ii) investigate why popular flavors are popular (e.g. by extracting info from reviews & ingredients), (iii) suggest a new recipe by examining ingredients list, (iv) apply sentiment analysis, (v) compare brands, etc.

🍦 Considerations

• The collection of reviews on the brand websites may not be representative of overall opinion, i.e. there may be review censoring or presence of fake reviews meant to help/harm the image of the brand. We intentionally chose brands that host some negative reviews on their website (see e.g. Enlightened or Rebel for only 4-5 star reviews).
• Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, and Talenti are all owned by Unilever. Häagen-Dazs is owned by Froneri. Talenti is distinguished from the other brands as they produce gelato.
• The images collection probably isn't large enough to use for any computer vision tasks, but may be useful for EDA presentation. Some products may be missing a corresponding image. Ben & Jerry's and Häagen-Dazs images show actual ice cream scoops. Breyers and Talenti only show containers.
• Some reviews (mostly specific to Häagen-Dazs) include "...[This review was collected as part of a promotion]" in the text. Also -- not intended -- Talenti's review text seems to also include company feedback, i.e.: "We appreciate your feedback! ... please feel free to contact us directly at consumer.services@unilever.com".

🍦 Recent and future updates

• In version 1 the data consisted only of Ben & Jerry's and Häagen-Dazs. In the latest version I added Breyers and Talenti data.
• I do not have other planned updates, but I may try to add data from other brands (such as Dreyer's). Please let me know if you have any suggestions/questions 😊