Best Car for Your Trip
Madhuri Gupta
March 18, 2016
App Developed as a part of Developing Data Products Course Project
About Us
This app helps you choose the most cost-effective car for your upcoming trip. It has been developed as a part of Developing Data Products course project at Coursera.
Our aim is to find out the best car for you on the basis of data extracted from the 1974 Motor Trend US magazine, and comprises fuel consumption and 10 aspects of automobile design and performance for 32 automobiles (1973-74 models).
Source code for the app - ui.R and server.R files are available on the GitHub.
Data Courtesy: Henderson and Velleman (1981), Building multiple regression models interactively. Biometrics, 37, 391-411
How To Use
To provide you with viable options, you are required to enter the following:
- Approx Travel Distance
- Gasoline Price in the area (in USD)
- Units measured in
- Your Gasoline Budget
To further fine-tune the results you can enter the desired Number of Cylinders, Horsepower and Transmission type for your car.
The table on the right side lists the Car Options that meet all your criterion. You can also sort the table according to the variable you want by clicking the arrows at the top of the table.
Data Overview
head(mtcars, 10)
mpg cyl disp hp drat wt qsec vs am gear carb
Mazda RX4 21.0 6 160.0 110 3.90 2.620 16.46 0 1 4 4
Mazda RX4 Wag 21.0 6 160.0 110 3.90 2.875 17.02 0 1 4 4
Datsun 710 22.8 4 108.0 93 3.85 2.320 18.61 1 1 4 1
Hornet 4 Drive 21.4 6 258.0 110 3.08 3.215 19.44 1 0 3 1
Hornet Sportabout 18.7 8 360.0 175 3.15 3.440 17.02 0 0 3 2
Valiant 18.1 6 225.0 105 2.76 3.460 20.22 1 0 3 1
Duster 360 14.3 8 360.0 245 3.21 3.570 15.84 0 0 3 4
Merc 240D 24.4 4 146.7 62 3.69 3.190 20.00 1 0 4 2
Merc 230 22.8 4 140.8 95 3.92 3.150 22.90 1 0 4 2
Merc 280 19.2 6 167.6 123 3.92 3.440 18.30 1 0 4 4
Data Courtesy: Henderson and Velleman (1981), Building multiple regression models interactively. Biometrics, 37, 391-411
App Overview
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