Map Explorer

Geeta Nain
December 28 15

Introduction

This presention is intended to provide informations on application developed as course project of Developing Data Products course.

  • original version is tagged as a []

Objective

-objective of this app is to provide more friendly user interface to highlight and analyze desired region based on some unique attributes i.e. Populations, Climate, GDP

Data and R functions used

This application is based on the countryExData database under package rworldmap [https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rworldmap/rworldmap.pdf].

-CountryExData is an example dataset for country level data (2008 Environmental Performance Index)

-A dataframe containing example country level data for 149 countries. This is the 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) downloaded from http://epi.yale.edu/. Used here with permission, further details on the data can be found there. The data are referenced by ISO 3 letter country codes and country names

Input and Output variables

Input variables

  • Popluation2005, GDP_capita.MRYA, Climate, Air_E, Water_E, Biodiversity, Productive_natural_resourses, Forest,Fish, agriculture

Output variables

  • highlighted desired regions by country wise distribution of given input attributes

Conclusion and scope

This App can be further utilized to explore more interactive grapices to understand complex databases