Analyzed several thousand Boxcodes

[Salomones]

It looks as if many factories have closed or are only producing for Havana.

 

[zacca]

Looks very interesting but a little more context here would be helpful.

For the top graph - number of different box codes - what’s this represent? Ones you’ve bought? Ones you’ve counted in the wild? Something else?

And for the bottom, what’s the numerator and denominator to come up with those %? What’s it represent exactly? I’m assuming you geofenced Havana and it’s #factories in Havana / #total factories…if that’s the case, off the top of my head it would make sense that more rural factories have closed over the last couple years due to power grid and other issues. 

I can imagine this was a lot of work to gather all this data so thanks for putting it together and sharing! 

[Salomones]

I obtained the boxcodes from my own collection, BR, CC purchases here, German purchases in Forums and various visited casas in Europe visited by me. The database is very extensive.

The diagram above shows the number of different Fabrica codes found in each year.

For the second diagram I identified the factories in and around Havana based on the corresponding factories in the codelist here at FOH and assigned them as percentages. I could break this down for each individual factory, including the brands and formats produced there over the last 20 years.

I am working on this for 2 years now. The database is growing weekly and I hope to have identified 10k boxes soon.

[gormag38]

Interesting stuff. Thanks for putting together and sharing. 

1 hour ago, zacca said:

make sense that more rural factories have closed over the last couple years due to power grid and other issues. 

I think you hit the nail on the head! And I'm sure some of the infrastructure damage from hurricanes during those time period have also affected where leaf ends up. 

[helix]

Replaced by prisons.

[yuppie]

With this data, could you create a table of "Mother Factories"?