ITUT_Explore-App: A Data Explore Shiny App using ITU-T Data and GoogleVis Package.

Enrique Reveron
2016-04-17

Overview

This was built as part of deliverable for the course Developing Data Products as part of the Coursera Data Science Specialization.

The app for the first part of the assigment is available at: https://ereveron.shinyapps.io/ITUT-Explore_App/

The Source Code for the ui.R and server.R files are available on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/EReveron/ITUT_Explore-App

Web Application functionality

This app create demographic maps with information from ITU-T (2000-2014). This apps use the GoogleVis package to make the plots.

The main idea is make a demographic map using the ITU-T data from a specific variable:

  • Fixed Phone Lines or
  • Mobile Phone Subcriptions

You can also choose in the application the Data Range of interest.

If we want to plot the total amount of subscriptions in a specific year, is neccesary to select the same year from beginning to end. When is selected a year range, the apps will show the diff (Year2 - Year1).

ITU-T Data Set

The data was downloaded for ITU-T Web Site and provide the “Fixed Lines” and “Mobile Subscribers” per country, from 2000 to 2014. Let's look a Fixed subscribers dataset summary:

      country  2000  2001  2002  2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009  2010
1 afghanistan 29000 29000 33050 36700    0    0    0    0    0 5130 16620
   2011  2012  2013   2014
1 13509 90017 95769 101931

https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx)

Plot Example

This is an example, how to use the app to make a Geophraphic Map for 2005 Total Fixed Phone Lines Worldwide:

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