DotMapper

DotMapper is an R Shiny app.

• App is described in Smith CM and Hayward AC (2016). DotMapper: an open source tool for creating interactive disease point maps. BMC Infectious Diseases 16:145. doi:10.1186/s12879-016-1475-5

• User guide

Features

• Plot locations of cases and (optionally) associated venues of interest.
• Plot points colour coded according to any categorical variable.
• Interactively display subsets of data according to multiple variables.
• Select points by date using slider.
• Display key details of individual cases or venues by clicking on points.
• Display summary table of key statistics.
• Display epidemic curve by year, quarter, month, week or day.

Running the app

To use DotMapper, you need to have R installed on your machine.

You then need to install the Shiny package: install.pacakges("shiny"), and load it: library(shiny).

Then, run the app using the R command:

runGitHub("DotMapper", "cathsmith57", launch.browser=T)