• This application will enable you to check the number of cases across India statewise.
• The values are updated daily.
• You can select the type of cases you wish to check from the dropdown menu.
• The output is an interacticve map of India with distinct colored states corresponding to the number of cases.

The dataset used is extracted from a github repository. The data consists of a variety of fields but we only need the first 6 for our application.

str(states)

## 'data.frame':    37 obs. of  6 variables:
##  $ State            : chr  "Maharashtra" "Tamil Nadu" "Delhi" "Gujarat" ...
##  $ Confirmed        : int  246600 134226 110921 41027 35092 36216 33402 28453 27235 23901 ...
##  $ Recovered        : int  136985 85915 87692 28685 22689 14718 20919 17959 14393 17902 ...
##  $ Deaths           : int  10116 1898 3334 2033 913 615 348 906 309 507 ...
##  $ Active           : int  99202 46413 19895 10309 11490 20879 12135 9588 12533 5492 ...
##  $ Last_Updated_Time: chr  "12/07/2020 01:51:08" "11/07/2020 19:07:07" "11/07/2020 19:50:08" "11/07/2020 20:18:07" ...

googleVis library has been used in this application. This library provides a lot of features to interact with our map and it is perfect for our application.

g <- gvisGeoChart(data, "State", "Confirmed", 
                  options=list(region="IN", displayMode="regions", 
                              resolution="provinces"))

• The shiny app is hosted here.

• The source code is available here.