saturn

This dataset contains 3,222 rows and 11 columns of US county-level indicators on poverty, SNAP eligibility and participation, vehicle access, and total population, keyed by FIPS and county/state codes. The population and program-count columns (total_pop, poverty_pop, snap_eligible_est, snap_participants_est, no_vehicle_total) are extremely right-skewed, with skew values from 13 to 20 and around 11-14% of rows flagged as outliers — a handful of very large counties dominate the raw totals. Note that snap_eligible_est and poverty_pop have identical statistics, suggesting one is a direct copy of the other and worth verifying before analysis. The rate-based columns are more tractable: poverty_rate has a moderate skew of 2.1 with a median of 13.55%, and no_vehicle_pct has a median of 5.41% but a long tail reaching 85.94%. Start with the rate columns for cross-county comparison and reserve the totals for absolute-magnitude questions.

This column holds full county names paired with state (e.g., "... County, Texas"), as evidenced by "county," appearing 2999 times out of 3222 rows alongside top state tokens like Texas (256), Virginia (189), and Georgia (159). Every value is unique (n_unique=3222, null_rate=0) and lengths are tightly clustered (mean 24.3, min 16, max 59, ~3 words), consistent with a canonical place-name label. The near_unique alert confirms it functions as a row identifier rather than a categorical feature.

Population counts per record, ranging from 47 to 9,782,602 with a median of 25,174 — consistent with US county-level totals. The distribution is extremely right-skewed (skew 13.36, kurtosis 297.59) and 13.9% of rows (449) flag as outliers, driven by a handful of mega-population entities pulling the mean (101,340) far above the median.

This is a count of population in poverty per record (likely a county or similar geographic unit), ranging from 3 to 1,343,978 with a median of 3,799.5. The distribution is extremely right-skewed (skew 14.73, kurtosis 342.21) and 362 values (11.2%) are flagged as outliers, consistent with a few very large jurisdictions dwarfing the rest. No nulls or zeros, and 2,839 of 3,222 values are unique.

Numeric codes ranging from 1 to 72 with 52 unique values across 3222 rows and no nulls strongly suggest US state/territory FIPS codes rather than a true measurement. The near-uniform spread (mean 31.27, median 30, std 16.29, skew 0.16) and absence of outliers are consistent with a categorical identifier encoded as integers. Treating these as a continuous feature would be misleading.

Despite the name 'county', this column is stored as numeric with 330 unique integer values from 1 to 840 across 3,222 rows — consistent with a county FIPS or lookup code rather than a measured quantity. The distribution is heavily right-skewed (skew 2.87, kurtosis 11.6) with 178 outliers (5.5%), which is expected behavior for an ID-like code, not a meaningful statistical signal. No nulls or zeros are present.

This is the U.S. county FIPS code: every one of the 3222 rows is unique, with values spanning 1001 to 72153, consistent with state-prefixed county identifiers. The distribution is near-symmetric (skew 0.16, kurtosis -0.63) and has no outliers or nulls, as expected for a structured code rather than a measurement. Despite being numeric, the values are categorical labels and arithmetic on them is meaningless.

This column appears to be a county- or area-level poverty rate expressed as a percentage, with 3222 rows, 1719 unique values, and no nulls. The distribution is right-skewed (skew 2.10, kurtosis 6.89) with a median of 13.55 and mean 15.10, but a long tail stretching to a max of 66.32 versus a min of 1.6. About 4.25% of rows (137) are flagged as outliers, consistent with a small set of severely impoverished areas.

A numeric estimate of SNAP-eligible counts per record, with 3222 non-null rows and 2839 unique values. The distribution is severely right-skewed (skew 14.73, kurtosis 342.21): the median is 3799.5 but the max reaches 1,343,978, and 11.2% of rows flag as outliers. No nulls or zeros are present, so the spread is real, not missingness artefact.

Estimated SNAP participant counts per record, ranging from 2 to 900,465 with a median of 2,546 and mean of 8,711. The distribution is severely right-skewed (skew 14.73, kurtosis 342.21) with 362 outliers (11.2%) and a standard deviation (28,987) more than three times the mean, suggesting a few very large jurisdictions dominate. No nulls or zeros are present across 3,222 rows.

This column appears to be an aggregate vehicle count (likely total number of vehicles per record/area). The distribution is extremely heavy-tailed: median is 580 but the mean is 3304 and the maximum reaches 601,621, with skew of 20.26 and kurtosis of 501.27. About 12.6% of rows (407) flag as outliers, while only 0.37% are zeros and there are no nulls.

Likely a per-area percentage of households without a vehicle, given values bounded between 0.0 and 85.94 with a median of 5.41 and Q1-Q3 of 3.98-7.36. The distribution is severely right-skewed (skew 6.98, kurtosis 86.23) with 140 outliers (4.35%) stretching far above the typical range, while only 0.37% of rows are exactly zero. No nulls across 3,222 rows.