SDS 235: Visual Analytics - Final Project

A Shiny App exploring NYC Civilian Complaints about the NYPD

Our app is deployed on shinyapps.io at this link. You could also run it by cloning this repository locally and running the app.R script!

Components of this repository

Our project includes the following files/folders:

• app.R contains the server and ui of our app
• the other .R files contain components of our app that are sourced into app.R
• footer.hmtl contains HTML and CSS code for our footer
• the scratchpads folder contains our data wrangling and visualizations before they go into the shiny app
• the data folder contains the main data for our project. It is called Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers. It was retrieved on April 29, 2021 from ProPublica.

Required Packages

Our app requires the following R packages which are all available for download from CRAN:

• tidyverse
• shiny
• shinythemes
• leaflet
• plotly
• here
• RColorBrewer
• kableExtra
• htmltools
• reactable

You can run the following code in your console to install all these packages:

install.packages(c(
  "tidyverse", "shiny", "shinythemes",
  "leaflet", "plotly", "here",
  "RColorBrewer", "kableExtra",
  "htmltools", "reactable"
))

GitHub repo: https://github.com/mariumtapal/sds235-final-project

Group Members:

• Marium Tapal
• Eleni Partakki
• Elisabeth Nesmith