costinflation/instant-coffee-prices-raw-dataset-2026
119,960 raw U.S. instant coffee price observations across 12 ZIP markets and 29 days. Instant Coffee Prices Raw Dataset (2026) Analyze 119,960 unaggregated product-level listed retail prices for instant coffee powder and granules across 12 U.S. ZIP markets from July 13 through August 10, 2026. The single analysis-ready CSV preserves titles, dates, geography, package quantities, listed prices, and a source-neutral comparable-price field. What “raw” means here: unaggregated… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/costinflation/instant-coffee-prices-raw-dataset-2026.
119,960 raw U.S. instant coffee price observations across 12 ZIP markets and 29 days.
Instant Coffee Prices Raw Dataset (2026)
Analyze 119,960 unaggregated product-level listed retail prices for instant coffee powder and granules across 12 U.S. ZIP markets from July 13 through August 10, 2026. The single analysis-ready CSV preserves titles, dates, geography, package quantities, listed prices, and a source-neutral comparable-price field.
What “raw” means here: unaggregated product-level observations after scope and safety filtering. The file includes derived normalization fields; it is not untouched acquisition data.
Dataset at a glance
A result worth investigating
38.9% of rows expose a quantity-cleaning challenge. Only 73,325 of 119,960 rows (61.1%) have a compatible resolved instant-coffee mass for the 8 ounces comparison. The unresolved rows remain in the file with their listed prices and a blank comparable-price field, making missingness an explicit analysis surface.
What one row represents
One row is one quality-filtered product-title, ZIP-market, date, package-quantity, and listed-price observation. It is not a sale, order, demand, inventory, market-share, or consumer record. Distinct offers may share a title, ZIP, and date; exact duplicate public rows are removed.
Comparable-price method
The fixed comparison target is 8 ounces. Compatible mass units normalize to 8 ounces; unresolved quantities remain blank. The comparison does not estimate prepared beverage yield. Original package fields remain available for audit.
Columns
Project ideas
- Compare eight-ounce-equivalent instant-coffee prices
- Track matched product titles through time
- Run reproducible EDA and missing-value analysis
Quick start with Pandas
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv(
"costinflation-instant-coffee-retail-prices-raw-2026-07-13-to-2026-08-10.csv",
dtype={"geography_id": "string"},
)
comparable = df.dropna(subset=["normalized_price_amount"]).copy()
print(comparable["normalized_price_amount"].describe())Quality and limitations
- All 348 expected date × ZIP-market combinations are present.
- Exact duplicate public rows: 0. The preparation pass removed 189 byte-identical input repeats.
- Scope review excluded 20 definite out-of-scope or unsafe titles representing 196 input rows.
- Product titles are descriptive text, not stable public product identifiers.
- ZIP labels are selected markets, not citywide or national estimates.
- Availability and title wording can change unmatched aggregates.
- Shipping, tax, redeemed promotions, purchases, and product performance are outside the dataset.
License
Released under CC0 1.0 Universal for unrestricted reuse. Attribution is not required, but citation helps others find the release.
CostInflation Team. (2026). Instant Coffee Prices Raw Dataset (2026). CC0 1.0 Universal.
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