benthecoder / covid19-flexdashboard

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.

View the Dashboard

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. You can find the yaml file here

Packages Used

• Dashboard interface - flexdashboard
• Visualization - plotly, RColorBrewer
• Data manipulation - dplyr, tidyr, purrr, forcats
• Mapping - leaflet, leafpop
• Strings - glue
• Data Source - coronavirus
• Data display - DT

ToDo

• Add vaccination data and visualizations
• learn how to dockerize dashboard for github actions to run image
• Add news section to dashboard for latest news
• Research better ways to present dashboard with new functionalities
• Learn D3 and add r2d3 visualizations to dashboard
• Add dygraphs to plots

References for github actions for R

• automate yml
• r-lib/actions

Tutorial on how to host flexdashboard on github pages

• pbatey/flexdashboard-example

Credits

• Rami Krispin