README.md

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UFO Sightings

UFO Sightings is a Shiny dashboard for information of UFO sightings in the United States. You can find the app here.

The data used for this dashboard comes from a Kaggle Dataset that compiles reports of unidentified flying objects. Reports of UFOs date from about 1910 to 2013. This dashboard uses a subset of the full data, focusing on the U.S. since 1970.

I started this project to learn more about the Shiny ecosystem beyond the base package. In particular, I was interested in learning about the golem package and using Shiny modules. These are both tools that help make a Shiny app more production ready, which is sort of another overarching goal with this project. This app also uses bs4Dash, a dashboard package built with Bootstrap 4, and fresh, a package for UI themes and styling. For the graphics, I used plotly for it's interactivity.

Installation

Since the application was built using the golem framework it's actually an R package, with some additional structure. You can run it locally by downloading this repository and running the run_dev.R file in the dev/ folder.

You can also install it with

remotes::install_github("asbates/ufosightings")

and then run

ufosightings::run_app()

asbates/ufosightings documentation built on Jan. 19, 2021, 12:35 a.m.