Interactive Maps in R with Shiny and Leaflet

Nic Crane
2nd August 2016

Shiny

Shiny

Shiny

Leaflet

Background

Personal project
Shiny library
Leaflet library
Written completely in R

London Income Map App

(show app now)

London Income Map

Why did I do it and why should you care?

New job, needed experience quickly of Shiny
Retweeted by Hadley Wickham :D
Create really cool maps and show off
Minimal steps to take to get there with few pre-requisites

Step 1 - understand the Shiny Bus Dashboard

http://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/bus-dashboard.html Bus dashboard

Step 2 - read up on visualising spatial data in R

Introduction to visualising spatial data in R by Robin Lovelace and James Cheshire
tmap, ggmap, and Leaflet

Cardiff via ggmap.

Step 3 - read up on Leaflet

Leaflet

Step 4 - get some GIS boundary files

GIS files

Step 5 - get some data

Data

Step 6: code!

Data

Thanks!

Links

Blog with all the details: https://goo.gl/7BxHjY
Source code: https://github.com/thisisnic/Shiny-London-Income-Map
Shiny tutorials: http://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial/
Shiny bus dashboard example: https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-examples/tree/master/086-bus-dashboard
Visualising spatial data guide: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/intro-spatial-rl.pdf
Introduction to Leaflet: https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/
Government datasets: https://data.gov.uk/