Course Project: Shiny Application and Reproducible Pitch

Karthick
2 August 2016

Overview

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

The app developed for the first part of the assignment demo is avalilable at: https://kartykr.shinyapps.io/shiny_app_mtcars/

Source code for ui.R and server.R files are available on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/kartykr/shiny_app_mtcars/

Web Application functionality

The sites is providing a tools for to select the best car for your trip.

We required you provide your trip detail like distance of your trip and the price od gasoline in your region, it's needed to calculate the Gasoline Expenditure for each car. Next with provide your budget on gasoline, so we can filtered and show the car with has Miles per Gallon(MPG) that below your budget.

Second, you can choose your desire cars characteristic in term of : Cylinders, Displacement, Horse Power and Transmission.

The result contains filters selected cars will show in a table on the main content with using the mtcars dataset from [R].

MTCARS Dataset

The data used in the app comes from the Motor Trend Car Road Tests (mtcars) dataset. Let has a look on the mtcars's summary

      mpg             cyl             disp             hp       
 Min.   :10.40   Min.   :4.000   Min.   : 71.1   Min.   : 52.0  
 1st Qu.:15.43   1st Qu.:4.000   1st Qu.:120.8   1st Qu.: 96.5  
 Median :19.20   Median :6.000   Median :196.3   Median :123.0  
 Mean   :20.09   Mean   :6.188   Mean   :230.7   Mean   :146.7  
 3rd Qu.:22.80   3rd Qu.:8.000   3rd Qu.:326.0   3rd Qu.:180.0  
 Max.   :33.90   Max.   :8.000   Max.   :472.0   Max.   :335.0  
      drat             wt             qsec             vs        
 Min.   :2.760   Min.   :1.513   Min.   :14.50   Min.   :0.0000  
 1st Qu.:3.080   1st Qu.:2.581   1st Qu.:16.89   1st Qu.:0.0000  
 Median :3.695   Median :3.325   Median :17.71   Median :0.0000  
 Mean   :3.597   Mean   :3.217   Mean   :17.85   Mean   :0.4375  
 3rd Qu.:3.920   3rd Qu.:3.610   3rd Qu.:18.90   3rd Qu.:1.0000  
 Max.   :4.930   Max.   :5.424   Max.   :22.90   Max.   :1.0000  
       am              gear            carb      
 Min.   :0.0000   Min.   :3.000   Min.   :1.000  
 1st Qu.:0.0000   1st Qu.:3.000   1st Qu.:2.000  
 Median :0.0000   Median :4.000   Median :2.000  
 Mean   :0.4062   Mean   :3.688   Mean   :2.812  
 3rd Qu.:1.0000   3rd Qu.:4.000   3rd Qu.:4.000  
 Max.   :1.0000   Max.   :5.000   Max.   :8.000  

Plot

The relationship between miles per gallon (mpg) and displacement (disp) in the mtcars dataset.

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