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Our sponsor has indicated during one of our meetings that they have an interest in linking Facebook posts’ performance to staff responsible for the creation of the respective content. Using an application from R called Shiny and Sparkline, we can design out a dashboard that can be assessed easily both online and offline.
Microsoft Excel Pivot Table – the basis of creating our R shiny dashboard application (Mock up)
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, which makes it suitable for our sponsor’s usage, to help churn large amounts of data analysis. R Shiny is a web application framework for R which helps to create interactive web applications for analyses done on R previously. Sparkline is a very small line chart to present the general shape of the variation in some measurement. The benefits of using sparklines are that they are small enough to be embedded in text, or several sparklines may be grouped together as elements of a small multiple. While a normal chart is designed to show as much data as possible, and is set apart from the main body of text, sparklines are intended to be succinct, memorable, and located where they are discussed. This allow multiple visual analysis to be displayed in a compact space. It is very useful in aiding the user (usually a manager) to obtain a quick and general understanding of the situation.
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