2026-10-26

Introduction

This presentation pitches the Motor Trend Car Explorer Shiny application.

  • Designed for both novice and expert users.
  • Explores the relationship between various car metrics and fuel efficiency (MPG).
  • Features dynamic UI inputs (dropdowns, checkboxes) and reactive server calculations.

The mtcars Dataset

The application utilizes the base R mtcars dataset, extracted from the 1974 Motor Trend US magazine.

# Embedded R code that gets evaluated
head(mtcars[, 1:4], 3)
##                mpg cyl disp  hp
## Mazda RX4     21.0   6  160 110
## Mazda RX4 Wag 21.0   6  160 110
## Datsun 710    22.8   4  108  93