This is an RStudio shiny application developed as a part of final project in the Developing Data Products course is Coursera Data Science Specialization track. The application is a BMI calculator.

The application includes:

• A numeric input for height (in cm)

• A numeric input for weight (in kg)

• A text output for BMI index and Weight Status

This app is hosted at: https://jrnaputo.shinyapps.io/DataProducts_BMICalculator/

BMI is a measurement of a person's leanness or corpulence based on their height and weight, and is intended to quantify tissue mass.

It is widely used as a general indicator of whether a person has a healthy body weight for their height.

Specifically, the value obtained from the calculation of BMI is used to categorize whether a person is underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese depending on what range the value falls between.

These ranges of BMI vary based on factors such as region and age, and are sometimes further divided into subcategories such as severely underweight or very severely obese.