In this pet project I built an R Shiny dashboard to explore when I should expect to hear back from my Political Science PhD applications. If you are unfamiliar with the process, PhD applications come with a lot of anxiety, in particular once, after you have submitted your apps early to mid-December, you have to wait 2-3 months to hear about schools' decisions.
A lot of information about previous years is available on the popular forum Grad Cafe. But it wasn't easy to visualize the data in order to get an easy glimpse at expected admission dates.
So I scraped the data and made it a dashboard. All the code should be in this repo. The finalized app is available on my blog.