R – Shiny DashBoard

“Having studied Data Science since April 2014, felt it a good time to get to know Rstudio’s Shiny Server! So sourced data.gov.au’s Disaster Events and built an interactive dashboard. Writing up my experiences as a way of introduction, in the hope it might help others to learn Shiny Server.”

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1. First requirement is to have a fair understanding of R. There are a ton of courses online, such as on Rstudio, EDX and Coursera. My favourite course is MIT’s Analytics Edge. As a currently archived course you can complete it self paced, although assessments are disabled.
2. Next to complete the Shiny Tutorial. It is very comprehensive and the only requirement is Rstudio, naturally. Previously the tutorial comprised 3 parts, but now are presented in the single video lasting a bit of 2 hours 25 minutes. I highly recommend it.
3. Study the Shiny Dashboard Instructions – my source code might help too
4. References:
   • RStudio Webinars

The Australian government provides public access to numerous data sets and encourages re-use. Therefore chose data from data.gov.au to build my demo, as it is freely available.

This is what the data looked like:

Australia Government Disaster Events Dashboard

And the Source code

Lastly this tutorial helped with the maps.