R Shiny Apps and Programs

R Shiny Apps

Survey Analysis

• Census Data Explorer - R shiny app which outputs data, plots, and maps from 2010-2017 American Community Surveys (06/10/20)*
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• Census Data Explorer (old version) - R shiny app which outputs data and plots from 2014-2017 American Community Surveys
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• Census Data Interactive Map - R shiny app which displays data from 2016 American Community Survey on an interactive map
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• Current Population Survey Data Explorer - R shiny app which outputs data and plots from 2003-2019 Current Population Surveys (CPS) (06/12/20)*
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• Basic Monthly CPS Explorer - R shiny app which outputs data and plots from online Basic Monthly CPS (Current Population Survey) data for 2016-2023 (01/24/24)*
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Stock and Financial Analysis (NOTE: some of the following stock apps are currently not working due to changes in the Yahoo API)

• Backtesting - R shiny app to backtest stocks and ETFs
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• Portfolio Manager - R shiny app that allows the import and monitoring of a portfolio created from files downloaded from one or more financial institutions. (09/01/20)*
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• Sector Analysis - R shiny app that uses the BatchGetSymbols package to fetch tickers of sectors or watchlists for analysis (06/29/20)*
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• Simple Portfolio - R shiny app that allows the import and monitoring of a portfolio.
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• Stock charts - R shiny app that uses the quantmod package to draw an interactive stock chart with overlays
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Other Analysis

• Campaign Finance: 2019-2020 - R shiny app (with a Usage tab) of Federal Election Commission data for the 2019-2020 Election Cycle (10/11/20)*
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• Campaign Finance: 2015-2016 - R shiny app (with a Usage tab) of Federal Election Commission data for the 2015-2016 Election Cycle
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• Reproducibility - R shiny app that duplicates the basic functions of the RStudio addin (using the revisit package) listed below.
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  • R Journal article describing revisit package
  • YouTube video - revisit: a Tool for Statistical Reproducibility and for Teaching
  
  
• Tax cuts - R shiny app to analyze the effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 on various taxpayers
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• Monthly Treasury Statement: 2015-2023 - R shiny app (with a Usage tab) for analyzing data from the Monthly Treasury Statements. (12/22/23)*
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• Southwest Land Border Encounters: 2019-2023 - R shiny app for analyzing data on Southwest Land Border Encounters from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (1/09/23)*
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• U.S. Budget - R shiny app that reads tables from the U.S. budget and uses ggplot2 to display the data (02/10/20)*
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  • Sample output - Comparison of data from the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2019 and 2018
  • Sample output - Comparison of data from the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2019 and 2017
  
  
• Voting Statistics: 2016-2020 - R shiny app (with a Usage tab) that compares election results from selected federal races, 2016-2020 (2/1/21)*
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• Voting Projections vs. Actual Results - R shiny app (with a Usage tab) that calculates the shift in the vote margin between projections from FiveThirtyEight and the actual results of races. (3/17/21)*
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• Analysis of Reported Voting Areas - R shiny app (with a Usage tab) that analyzes precinct election data with various tools, including Cumulative Vote Tally (CVT) graphs. (5/25/21)*
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• Analysis using data from the OpenElections project - R shiny app that analyzes precinct election data with various tools using data from the OpenElections project. (9/1/22)*
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• Test Shiny App - Shiny app to test reactivity and show some basic options (09/04/19)*

R Programs and RStudio Addins

• A Look At Non-working Prime-age Men Using R: 1994-2018 - R programs to reproduce George Borjas blog post
  
  
• Mariel boatlift - R programs to reproduce results from David Card's 1990 paper on the Mariel boatlift
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• Reproducibility - RStudio addin to aid in statistical reproducibility and alternate analysis (co-contributor)
  • Code and README for programs
  • R Journal article describing revisit package