Taking it public: Visualizing geospatial data on the web using

Shiny

Jerry Shannon, Kyle Walker, & Julia ConnellNACIS 2016

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Is Big Data really that easy?

Academics

Policy makers

Community members

Non-profits

Data

Data Dashboards

FOSS: Free and Open Source Software

HTML WidgetsLeaflet

PlotlynetworkD3

d3heatmap

Flexdashboard: Combine widgets

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How does Shiny (and related software) shape the circulation of data among key stakeholders?

Example 1: Georgia Initiative for Community Housing (GICH)

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Example 1: Georgia Initiative for Community Housing (GICH)

Survey construction on

ODK

Community data collection

Shiny app design and

sharing

Collecting contextual data

Interpretation and planning for redevelopment

Example 1: Georgia Initiative for Community Housing (GICH)

What questions should it answer? What contextual data should we use?What are the academics supposed to do?Who gets access to the data and code?

Example 2: Diversity gradients

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Academic research: paywalled journals

Journals: static visualization

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Extending the article with Shiny

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Sharing code and data: GitHub

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Early findingsShiny provides tools that allow data and code to easily circulate. But for whom? And why?Multiple data visualization options raise questions about how we display dataKey questions remain about open/private data, community engagement, and academic expertise

Thank you!Jerry Shannon: jshannon@uga.edu | http://jerry.shannons.us

Kyle Walker: kyle.walker@tcu.edu | http://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker