In RachelRamirez/NPS: Visualize the National Park Service and Benson Acoustic Summary Database

Accuracy

Are the results accurate?

• The results are accurate and presentation of information is clear
• Clean data exploration capability

Is it clear how the results were computed?

• Very clear, the parallel plot especially - nice way to represent mutlidimensional data
• No hidden or confounding methods; transition from input to output is intuitive in both code and app

Compilation

Did the analytic work?

• Yes, NPS installed without any errors, however parcoords package needed to be installed separately:

• initial call to run_my_app() threw back an error indicating that the parcoords package does not exist within the scope of the NPS package (i.e. dependencies were not being downloaded properly)

• The parcoords issue was easily solved through manual installation of package; after, run_my_app() generates without complication

• Data tab did not produce an output and unfortunately neither did the Map tab, the latter would have been particularly interesting

Were errors encountered when executing code according to documentation?

• Within each working tab, everything seemed to operate well, without errors

Ease of use

Is it clear how to use the analytic?

• Yes, the instruction page with data references was a particuarly nice touch

• Most of the x and y-axis options are obscure to the layman, but due to the amount of options I can understand the challenge associated with representing them meaningfully in this context

Are the visualizations/plots interpretable?

• As previously mentioned, the data labels are obscure; but, the relationships are clear, if that makes sense. The scatter plots give clear insight into 2D correlations, and the parallel plots are pretty great for >2D

Overall

I like this package - the Shiny app is perfect for data exploration and what works is intuitive and easy to operate. Excellent (45/50)

RachelRamirez/NPS documentation built on May 23, 2019, 1:25 p.m.