PDC: Percentage Difference Calculator

Tomaso Bulligan
April 25, 2015

You know you always wanted one.

PDC - Percentage Difference Calculator

PDC takes two numbers and returns the percentage difference between them.

Quick. Easy. Free.

Try it now!

Go to: http://tbulligan.shinyapps.io/PercentageDifferenceCalculator/

PDC - The looks

PDC screenshot

PDC - The magic

It takes two values…

x <- 9.63
y <- 9.75

…returns their difference…

print(d <- diff(c(x, y)))

[1] 0.12

…and returns their percentage difference.

paste0(round(d / x * 100, digits = 2), "%")

[1] "1.25%"

PDC - Credits

Written with R, a software environment for statistical computing, and Shiny, a web application framework for R.

Kindly hosted by shinyapps.io

This work of love would not exist without the fantastic Data Science Specialization offered by Johns Hopkins University.