Small Data, Big Findings

Laundry Flexdashboard

Summary: I’m tired of waiting for the on-site laundry machines at my apartment buildings and therefore, I scraped one-month data of the real-time machine usage (in Nov 2017) and that gave me a reason to try out flexdashboard.

Flexdashboard

Before this project, I have primarily used Shiny to build interactive web applications or interactive visualization. Even though I learned about the existence of flexdashboard, I never had the opportunity to use it at work. The laundry data gave me a great reason to try it out!

Below is the live dashboard (it will take some time to load the first time.)

If you would like to learn more about the source code, click the top right button.

Future Development

The work is in continuous development, I would love to try out different interactive visualization libraries (I’m familiar with plotly and would like to try something new). I have also scraped data in June 2018 which I plan to do a seasonal comparison in the future.