Boston Marathon Qualifying Time and Prospective Check

Lynn Huang
March 27, 2017

Application Feature

This application allows user to check the qualifying time and pace for Boston Marathon for his/her age group.

At the same time, the graphic plot shows the qualifying times for all the age groups for him or her. This will allow user to see his/her possibility of BQ for the years to come if he/she can't reach the BQ goal at his/her current age.

Data presentation and Interpretation

The one-row table shows the qualifying time and pace for the specific sex and age group that user belongs to.

Time, in HH:MI, total running time for a marathon race

Pace, in MM:SS/Mile, average pace for a marathon

Exploring the data

head(bq)
  AgeGroup Time Pace    Sex
1    18-34 3:35 8:12 Female
2    35-39 3:40 8:24 Female
3    40-44 3:45 8:35 Female
4    45-49 3:55 8:58 Female
5    50-54 4:00 9:10 Female
6    55-59 4:10 9:33 Female
filter(bq, Sex=='Male',AgeGroup=='45-49')
  AgeGroup Time Pace  Sex
1    45-49 3:25 7:49 Male

The Web App and Codes

The Web App is running on https://mlynnhuang.shinyapps.io/data-product/ The code for ui.R and server.R can be found in http://github.com/mlynnhuang/data-product-2/