DataProductsPresentation

Eric Weber
April 18, 2016

Introduction

This project uses data about revenue and profit for Fortune 500 companies over the last 70 years.

The shiny app is hosted here:

ShinyApp

The files to build the shiny app can be found here:

Github

Project

The shiny app allows the user to subset the data by year, rank, and company, displaying the total revenue and profit for those companies in millions that year.

This allows the user to see which years a company was present in the dataset, which companies were present in a given year, and which companies were a particular rank in a particular year.

While the table could certainly be extended to do more, I focused on usability in this project.

Example Data

head(f500, n = 5)
  year rank          company    rev profit
1 1955    1   General Motors 9823.5  806.0
2 1955    2      Exxon Mobil 5661.4  584.8
3 1955    3       U.S. Steel 3250.4  195.4
4 1955    4 General Electric 2959.1  212.6
5 1955    5           Esmark 2510.8   19.1

Summary of Dataset

summary(f500[,c(4,5)])
      rev               profit        
 Min.   :    49.7   Min.   :-99289.0  
 1st Qu.:   443.3   1st Qu.:     9.7  
 Median :  1498.0   Median :    44.9  
 Mean   :  5237.2   Mean   :   261.2  
 3rd Qu.:  4607.8   3rd Qu.:   206.3  
 Max.   :442851.0   Max.   : 45220.0  
                    NA's   :369