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Staffelter Hof Winery is Germany's oldest business, established in 862 under the Carolingian dynasty. It has continued to serve customers through dramatic changes in Europe, such as the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and both world wars. What characteristics enable a business to stand the test of time?

To help answer this question, BusinessFinancing.co.uk researched the oldest company still in business in almost every country and compiled the results into several CSV files. This dataset has been cleaned.

Having useful information in different files is a common problem. While it's better to keep different types of data separate for data storage, you'll want all the data in one place for analysis. You'll use joining and data manipulation to work with this data and better understand the world's oldest businesses.

The Data

data/businesses.csv and data/new_businesses.csv

ColumnDescription
businessName of the business (varchar)
year_foundedYear the business was founded (int)
category_codeCode for the business category (varchar)
country_codeISO 3166-1 three-letter country code (char)

data/countries.csv

ColumnDescription
country_codeISO 3166-1 three-letter country code (varchar)
countryName of the country (varchar)
continentName of the continent the country exists in (varchar)

data/categories.csv

ColumnDescription
category_codeCode for the business category (varchar)
categoryDescription of the business category (varchar)
# Import necessary libraries
import pandas as pd

# Load the data
businesses = pd.read_csv("data/businesses.csv")
new_businesses = pd.read_csv("data/new_businesses.csv")
countries = pd.read_csv("data/countries.csv")
categories = pd.read_csv("data/categories.csv")
businesses.head()
#What is the oldest business on each continent 

#merge two df with country_code groupby by continent , find min of year 
#groupby by continent , find min of year
#merge with gr df again and subset

business_countries= pd.merge(businesses, countries, on = 'country_code', how = 'left')

continent_gr = business_countries.groupby('continent')['year_founded'].min().reset_index()

oldest_business_continent = pd.merge(
    business_countries,
    continent_gr,
    on = ['continent','year_founded'],
    how = 'inner'
)[['continent', 'country','business','year_founded']]


#How many countries per continent lack data on the oldest businesses?
    #concat businesses and new businesses and merge with countries 
    #filter missing business data and count
old_new = pd.concat(
    [businesses,new_businesses], 
    ignore_index= True)
combine_df = pd.merge(old_new, countries, on = 'country_code', how = 'outer')

count_missing = combine_df[combine_df['business'].isna()].groupby('continent').agg(count_missing = ('country', 'count'))
print(count_missing)

#Which business categories are best suited to last many years, and on what continent are they?
bus_con_cat = pd.merge((pd.merge(businesses, countries, on = 'country_code',how = 'inner')),
                        categories, on = 'category_code', how ='inner')
oldest_by_continent_category = bus_con_cat.groupby(['continent','category'])['year_founded'].min().reset_index()    
print(oldest_by_continent_category)