Hey there!

This repository contains all the data and code I used to create a story for the San Antonio Express-News that searched for the best and worst Buc-ee's in Texas. It is a riff on a story concept I've done in the past with Tim Fanning that looked at the best and worst Whataburger and H-E-B locations in and around Texas.

Questions answered in this analysis:

• Where are the best and worst Buc-ee's in Texas according to ratings on Google Maps?
• What is the distribution of ratings for Buc-ee's?

If you'd like to run this notebook for yourself, you can do so by cloning this repository.

All the required packages are listed in the requirements.txt file. You can install them by running the following command in your terminal:

pip install -r requirements.txt

If you would like to run the notebooks as python files, use the nbexec notebooks/NOTEBOOK_NAME.ipynb command.

In order to collect your own Google map ratings, you will need to create API credentials with the Google Cloud Platform and store the API key in a .env file.