Explore the Swiss Dataset

Farah M
December 25, 2020

The Application

This application gives a brief data exploration the Swiss Dataset, which consists of a standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.

The Interface

The Main Panel consists of:

  • A histogram displaying the distribution of the variable selected.
  • A scatter plot Consists of a histogram displaying the relationship between 2 variables as well as the regression line of this relationship

On the Side Panel, the user:

  • Selects a variable and a bin size to control the histogram plot
  • Selects the 2 variables for the scatter plot

The Swiss Dataset

str(swiss)

'data.frame':   47 obs. of  6 variables:
 $ Fertility       : num  80.2 83.1 92.5 85.8 76.9 76.1 83.8 92.4 82.4 82.9 ...
 $ Agriculture     : num  17 45.1 39.7 36.5 43.5 35.3 70.2 67.8 53.3 45.2 ...
 $ Examination     : int  15 6 5 12 17 9 16 14 12 16 ...
 $ Education       : int  12 9 5 7 15 7 7 8 7 13 ...
 $ Catholic        : num  9.96 84.84 93.4 33.77 5.16 ...
 $ Infant.Mortality: num  22.2 22.2 20.2 20.3 20.6 26.6 23.6 24.9 21 24.4 ...

For More Information

Please see the following links:

  1. The Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators Data (swiss data) can be accessed with data(swiss) in R

  2. The Shiny app can be accessed here