US High School Graduate Rate Explorer

This is prepared for Johns Hopkins' Developing Data Products online class - Course Project Assignment

jtmoogle @github.com All Rights Reserved
Nov 19, 2015

US High School Graduate Rate Explorer

This Shiny application is to search and visualize the United State High School Graduation Rate from year 2011 to 2012.

  • Data source were downloaded from Data for Diploma Unmerged Data and Data for Diploma Merged Data
  • The raw data of census, and student graduation rates were analyzed, processed, and summarized into tidy data files which contain state, district, major race, number of students and graduate rate.
    • data was summarized student count by state, and by state and districts
    • data was averaged/mean (1) graduation rates by state, and by state and districts (2) student count, standard deviation, standard errors (SD / district count) by state
    • data was reshaped data into major races (White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native Indians, Others), and special focuses (Limited English Language, poverty, children with disability)

Data Summary: 49 states, 11,325 districts, 3,614,691 students attended high schools in USA from year 2011 to 2012

Largest/Smallest High School Students by US State in 2011 and 2012 (Summarized student count by state, and order the largest at the top)

plot of chunk loaddata jtmoogle @github.com All Rights Reserved

Highest/Lowest High School Graduate Rate % by US State in 2011 and 2012 (Averaged graduation rates by state, and order the highest at the top)

plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-1 jtmoogle @github.com All Rights Reserved

High School Students by Major Races from 2011 to 2012

plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-2 jtmoogle @github.com All Rights Reserved