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Biodiversity in National Parks is an app that let you visualize Kaggle's biodiversity dataset. By using the National Park Service database of animal and plant species identified in individual national parks, the application offers a graphical representation of the data with maps and charts.

Links

• RStudio Cloud project: https://rstudio.cloud/project/243079 
• Shinyapps: https://abenedetti.shinyapps.io/bioNPS/
• Github: https://github.com/abenedetti/bioNPS/ 

Features

• The application layout is made with shinydashboard, that semplifies the creation of dashboards

• The maps are realized with the leaflet package, with an implementation of the species choropleth map

• A visual representation of the species' taxonomy is made with the collapsibleTree package, which make very effective the graphical representation of hierarchical trees

• A web scraping component runs in the backend, and retrieves parks pictures by using the rvest package

• Integrated with the google analytics.js library, to measure how users interact with the app

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.