DSCI 532 Cancer Incidence

Our goal with this project is to create an interactive visualization of cancer incidence in Canada using Shiny.

Usage

1. Clone/download this repository
2. Download the dataset from here
   • Press 'Access' for:
     • Resource Type = Dataset
     • Format = CSV
     • Language = English
   • Download the .zip file ~65 MB into the /data/raw folder
3. Extract .zip file contents into /data folder
   • Note: the extracted dataset is ~1 GB
4. Create the clean_cancer_data file to be used by Shiny app:
   • If user has 'Make' installed:
     • Navigate to the root of this project using the commmand line and run: make all
   • If user doesn't have 'Make' installed:
     • Navigate to the root of this project using the command line and run: Rscript src/clean_data.R data/13100111.csv shiny/Cancer_Incidence/clean_cancer_data.csv
   • clean_cancer_data should appear in DSCI_532_Cancer-Incidence/shiny/cancer_incidence/
5. To remove clean_cancer_data:
   • If user has 'Make' installed:
     • Navigate to the root of this project using the commmand line and run: make clean
   • If user doesn't have 'Make' installed:
     • Delete file manually from DSCI_532_Cancer-Incidence/shiny/cancer_incidence/

Shiny web application

Currently deployed at: https://rachelkriggs.shinyapps.io/shiny/