July 30, 2018

Application Overview

This interactive application predicts the estimated weight of chicks by taking inputs from the user in terms of days since birth and the type of protein diet fed to the chicks.

The application is a Shiny web application and the code consists of ui.R and server.R Application is hosted on the Cloud on RStudio's shiny server in the cloud (Shinyapps.io)

How does the application work

  • Select the days since birth using the slider input
  • Select one of the combo box to indicate the type of protein diet
  • After above two steps you can see the predicted weight in gms

A Quick look at the dataset ChickWeight

head(ChickWeight)
##   weight Time Chick Diet
## 1     42    0     1    1
## 2     51    2     1    1
## 3     59    4     1    1
## 4     64    6     1    1
## 5     76    8     1    1
## 6     93   10     1    1
dim(ChickWeight)
## [1] 578   4

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