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UBC-MDS / college_scorecard

Discovering how school size impacts soci-economic student metrics. Created by: sedv8808 and smwatts
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finished up the data table and added some error messaging #18

Closed smwatts closed 5 years ago

smwatts commented 5 years ago

Things that have been completed:

  1. The scale for percentage values has been changed (x100 -> instead of 0.95)
  2. The y-axis for the charts with distributions has been removed
  3. Titles have been changed to be more descriptive (i.e. Distribution of xyz..)
  4. A theme has been applied to the dashboard look more visually appealing (I also changed the colours on the graphs to a blue-grey scale)
  5. A dropdown widget has replaced the single select option for states so that multiple states can be selected at once
  6. More descriptive naming has been added to the admission rate range filter (i.e. "Select an admission rate range")
  7. The school size is now a multi-select option for users, where they can select: small, medium, large
  8. The tabs now include a table that alphabetically lists the schools and their attributes for a particular set of features
  9. There is error messaging when the tables of school information are too large to display the data (i.e. only 150 schools will be presented per tab - instead of showing the user an error message)
  10. I set Arizona as the default state because it gives nice looking charts and tables - I think this is a good starting point for people using our app
  11. I got a list of all of the State names and their corresponding state codes and joined this to our dataset (its part of our data cleaning script), so the dropdown is now more "user friendly"
  12. I cleaned up the data so our column headers are better in the data file (this just helped when writing the code)

BUGS: re: 9. - is there a better way to do this? I would like to present all schools in our shiny app but I get an index error. Maybe we should have a "download data" button if there are too many schools? I also just chose 150 schools through experimentation with the error message. I don't know the "cap" for "too many rows to display", sometimes it'll bug when I only have 14 schools (its bizarre).

IMPROVEMENTS: We should probably remove the y-axis for the "school count" and just display the count on top of the bar. Then see what this looks like when only one school size is selected - does it still look like an ugly box?