A Shiny micromapST App

Music City Center 

The linked micromaps approach was originally developed as an improvement to choropleth maps for displaying statistical summaries connected with spatial areal units, such as countries, states, and counties. Two R packages to create linked micromaps were published in 2015. These are the micromap and micromapST packages. The latter is for data indexed to the 50 US states and DC. The package handles the formatting needed for the micromap package and offers several options for statistical displays (scatterplots, boxplots, time series plots, and more). The micromapST package is useful, but it can be problematic specifying the data frames needed to specify the desired graphic. Furthermore, exploring data through visualization is easier, faster, and more intuitive using a graphical user interface. This is the motivation behind the R Shiny micromapST app, which is the topic of this talk. This presentation will serve as a tutorial and introduction to micromapST and the Shiny app using real-world data and applications.

spatial statistics

visualization

exploratory data analysis

maps

R Shiny