Bigfoot Shiny Demo

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Here's a link to a live version of the app:
https://russellshean.shinyapps.io/bigfoot_sightings/

This is a demonstration that shows how R's web development framework shiny can be used to make interactive dashboards and websites.

A publicly available database of bigfoot sightings was used for this project.

Here are some screenshots of what this demonstration app looks like. Scroll past the pictures for instructions to run a live version of this app and read more about how this project is organized!

How to run a live version of this app

1. Clone this repo as an R Project in Rstudio
2. Open the app.R file in Rstudio and click on the run app button:

The app can also be run as a docker container

sudo docker run  -p 6599:6599 rshean/bigfoot-shiny:latest

If you don't have docker on your computer, you can also run the container on this online sandbox: https://labs.play-with-docker.com/

File organization

1. The app is separated into modules stored in the R/modules/ folder. The modules are further divided into folders for each page of the app. Settings and functions are defined outside of the modules inside of the R/ folder.

2. The app also executes/loads HTML, CSS, and javascript files stored in the www/ folder.

3. An R script that pre-processes the data is stored in the R/data_cleaning/ folder.

4. Python scripts for scraping the data are stored in the python/ folder.