Lab 3
Transforming a Report into a Dashboard
For this lab assignment, you are tasked with transforming some aspect of the 2020 Wellcome Global Health Monitor Report or the 2018 Global Health Monitor Report into a dashboard. Anything in either of these reports is fair game, so find something that inspires you!
In case you are drawing a blank, here are some ideas:
- compare data from 2018 and 2020
- compare two aspects of the same issue (e.g., knowledge of science)
- compare two related issues (e.g., knowledge of science and trust in science)
Note that the data from 2020 is not identical to the data from 2018! These data were collected during the pandemic, so that setting plays a large role in the data that were collected. The agency still asked questions related to people’s trust in science, but this was asked during the COVID-19 pandemic (so the question might hit differently).
Dashboard Requirements
The dashboard you create must have the following:
- a navigation logo (similar to the Olympic rings)
- icons to your socials (e.g., LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, email)
- at least two pages
- at least two tabsets (can be on just one page)
- at least two cards with quick information (e.g., % of people across the world who have faith in vaccines)
- at least on plot made with
leaflet - a non-default theme
- non-default plot colors
The colors in your styled dashboard should match the colors in your plots!
Resources for Creating Your Dashboard
There are two additional videos by Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel that you will need to watch in order to create your dashboard.
Submission
You are required to submit both the link to your GitHub repository containing your source code and a link to your published dashboard. You are expected to publish your dashboard through Quarto Pub, a free publishing service for static content created with Quarto.
You will need to sign up for a free Quarto Pub account. I would highly recommend you link your Quarto Pub account with your GitHub account, since the documents you will be publishing should live in a GitHub repository!
You are expected to publish the content rendered on your local machine. Do not follow the instructions for using GitHub Actions to publish—that’s too spicy!