matt-dray / scot-deer-collisions

:deer::car: R Shiny app: explore open data on deer strikes in Scotland, 2000 to 2017

Deer-vehicle collisions in Scotland

A small R Shiny app for exploring geographic data about collisions between vehicles and deer in Scotland between 2000 and 2017. You can read more in the accompanying blog post.

Use

The app is not hosted online. You can clone or download this repo and then run the app, or you can run these lines from an R session:

shiny::runGitHub(
  repo = "scot-deer-collisions", 
  username = "matt-dray"
)

The app depends on a few packages: {shiny}, {shinydashboard}, {leaflet}, {DT}, {dplyr}, {sf} and {icon}.

Data

From the blogpost:

The National Deer-Vehicle Collisions Project, administered by The Deer Initiative, has been monitoring data on deer-vehicle collisions in the UK.

The data are open. I found the dataset when skimming through data.gov.uk. It links to the SNH Natural Spaces site where you can download the data as shapefile, GML or KML under the Open Government Licence.

I produced this app independently and I don't work for any of these organisations.

scot-deer-collisions's Issues

Improve datatable

Need to:

• Hide columns behind 'Column visibility' button
• Provide short help text

Containerise?

Investigate possibility of containerising with something like rize. Would be interesting to talk about this in the upcoming blogpost (might be good to have a 'technical' section in that).

Flexdashboard, Crosstalk and Shiny

• Shiny for Flexdashboard
• Shiny for Crosstalk

Improve markers

• Create pop-ups
• Consider use of conditional marker/icon colours
• Consider clusters

Improve data preparation steps

Need to deal with:

• Remove unnecessary columns, e.g. gis_mapped
• Title case
• Month names
• Clean out non-A, -B and -M roads

Improve explanation of the tool

Add explanation about:

• data provenance
• organisations involved
• motivation

Probably somewhere in the information tab