This project was created as a demo / template for R-based Shiny Apps for students of Harvard's Spring 2021 iteration of Gov 1005 Big Data.

Key Features:

• Interactive Plot Demo

• Various methods of file linkage: local files, sourcing, and general file organization

• Mapping example, including using tidycensus data within a publishable app

Note:

The app runs locally and produces a vastly different set of outputs than does the published version link here.

These differences were designed to emphasize the ways that the shape file issue, described in the data cleaning section, causes a publication error and subsequently how one might go about resolving the situation. I am not proclaiming to be a shiny expert, only that I have found a few handy workarounds. The intermediate steps shown to be erroneous for the poverty map generally work for other, less problematic, samples of data

Course Syllabus here