cainesap / boardgamegeek

BoardGameGeek data explorer

boardgamegeek

Interactive Shiny app to explore BoardGameGeek data.

Data source: https://github.com/rasmusgreve/BoardGameGeek

Inspiration: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/designing-the-best-board-game-on-the-planet/

Contents

• bgg.sqlite3: BoardGameGeek data as an SQLite database;
• boardgamegeek.csv: download of data_w_right_ratings2014-05-02.csv from @rasmusgreve's GitHub repo;
• global.R: global variables;
• linkIdNames.txt: list of IDs and values, including the mechanics (from @rasmusgreve's GitHub repo);
• populate_db.R: data pre-processing to convert .csv to .sqlite3;
• server.R: works with ui.R to define Shiny app;
• ui.R: works with server.R to define Shiny app;
• versioning: previous releases;
• www: Bootswatch CSS, Yeti theme.

To run locally, change to the boardgamegeek directory and --

library(shiny)
runApp()

To deploy to shinyapps.io, you'll need to set up and configure your shinyapps account, then --

library(shinyapps)
deployApp()

As in: https://cainesap.shinyapps.io/boardgamegeek