Lab Activity for Geography 183

Building a COVID-19 Shiny Dashboard

Spring Quarter 2020

In this lab you will learn the basics of R and RShiny along with the primary interactive visualization packages in the R ecosystem by following the tutorials at this site https://mikejohnson51.github.io/COVID-19-dashboard/.

By the end you will build a Shiny web application similar to this:

that can be found here: COVID-19-Dashbaord

Topics Covered:

• Web Scraping / Streaming
• Shiny basics
• Interactive (and reactive) Maps, Charts, and Tables
• Mouse and Keyboard listeners
• UI formatting
• Dashboard publishing

Table of Contents:

00: Setting up your Project

01: Getting Data

02: Building dynamic Graphs

03: Building dynamic Maps

04: Building dynamic Tables

05: Shiny Basics

06: Adding a Map

07: Adding a Graph

08: Adding a Table

09: Adding an autofill search bar

10: Publishing your app