scrufulufugus / data3320

Redesign of Seattle Police Department's Use of Force Dashboard

Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
  • Installing Dependencies
  • Running

About

This project redesigns the SPD UoF dashboard in order to better understand certain aspects of the data.

Data for this dashboard is pulled from the UoF dataset provided by the SPD.

Getting Started

Installing Dependencies

The R programming language is required to run this application. Use the appropriate method of installing for your Distribution/OS.

For Ubuntu this would be:

sudo apt install r-base

Next, in an R console, install the necessary packages using the following command:

install.packages("tidyverse", "lubridate", "shiny", "shinydashboard", "dashboardthemes")

This step can take a while. Before downloading R may also ask you to choose a mirror.

Running

To run the application using the command line, simply use the following command in the same directory as the app file:

Rscript app.R

app.R can also be run by opening it in RStudio and clicking the run button.

Once the application is running the line Listening on http://127.0.0.1:#### should appear in the console. Click or copy/paste the link into a browser to see the dashboard.