The COVID-19 Dashboard
This dashboard provides an overview of the COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) epidemic. This dashboard was built with R using Rmarkdown and the Flexdashboard package.
Data
The source of data for this dashboard is from the R package coronavirus. With the raw data pulled from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University
This dashboard updates daily through the Github Actions workflow running a docker image I built. You can find the yaml file here and the docker image here
Packages Used
- Dashboard interface -
flexdashboard - Visualization -
plotly,RColorBrewer,ggplot2 - Data Import -
data.table - Data manipulation -
dplyr,tidyr,purrr,forcats - Mapping -
leaflet,leafpop - Strings -
glue - Data Source -
coronavirus - Data display -
DT - Dates -
lubridate - Scales -
scales
ToDo
- learn how to dockerize dashboard for github actions to run image with rocker
- figure out how to rebuild docker image if I decide to add more packages. Rebuild new one or is there another way? may be useful
- Add vaccination data into dashboard with reactable
- Learn D3 and add r2d3 visualizations to dashboard
- experiment with dygraphs article
- Add news section to dashboard for latest news
References for github actions for R
Tutorial on how to host flexdashboard on github pages
Docker for R
- An Introduction to Docker for R Users
- Rocker
- Docker cheatsheet
- Determine system dependencies for R packages