We built a Shiny App that communicates the risks associated with mosquitoes and promotes proactive, responsible actions to protect ourselves and our communities.
Project Summary
- The goal of the Mosquito Avengers project is to create an impactful project that increases awareness about the dangers of mosquitoes and emphasizes the importance of taking preventative measures to reduce their impact on human health and well-being.
- The project outcome will be an innovative and engaging Shiny App that communicates the risks associated with mosquitoes and promotes proactive, responsible actions to protect ourselves and our communities.
- The project will include an informative, interactive page with educational content, multimedia resources, and a call-to-action for visitors to take preventative measures against mosquitoes.
End Product
- The project outcome is an innovative and engaging Shiny App that communicates the risks associated with mosquitoes and promotes proactive, responsible actions to protect ourselves and our
communities. - The project includes an informative and interactive page with educational resources, a quiz, and an interactive map. The app includes an interactive map, a quiz, and an anatogram.
- The goal is that people will become aware of how big of problem mosquito diseases actually are.
- Our audience is people that could potentially donate to charities to help fight malaria and other mosquito diseases, as well as people that just want to become aware of these diseases.
Process
We collaborated to develop this app. The product owner defined the project’s scope and goal, which was refined by the developer and designer who developed wireframes and screen mockups. The product owner and Scrum master then continued to think about the focus and goals of the app as the developer and designer began working on the MVP. We then refined the app after receiving user feedback.
This was our first time using Agile practices and Scrum, so it was very different from what we were used to in previous CS courses. In addition, both developers were not particularly comfortable with R, so quite a bit of learning was involved as we went through the project. Our final app is very interactive, with the map allowing users to see firsthand how serious of an issue malaria is, and the quiz is also an achievement.
References
We would like to thank our professor, alumni mentor, and Vivero fellow, as well as all our classmates who watched our demos and gave feedback. We could not have achieved this without their help.
- Packages used: shiny, shinythemes, ggplot2, dplyr, sf, leaflet, readr, rnaturalearth, rnaturalearthdata, gganatogram.
- Dataset: Incidence of malaria (per 1,000 population at risk)
Resources:
- The Essence of Software book by
- SYSTEM DESIGN by T. Morgan.
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/vector-borne-diseases
- https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/learn/mosquito-borne-diseases
- https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768/
- https://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-best-charity-can-save-a-life-for-333706-and-thats-a-steal-2015-7
- https://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/index.html
- https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/symptoms/index.html
- https://www.cdc.gov/zika/symptoms/symptoms.html
- https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html
- https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/learn/mosquito-borne-diseases
- https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
- https://appsilon.com/user-interface-design-shiny-apps/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
&utm_campaign=rshiny-weekly-newsletter - https://uxdesign.cc/designing-for-accessibility-is-not-that-hard-c04cc4779d94
- https://accessibility.digital.gov/product/accessibility-basics/
- https://rstudio.github.io/reactlog/
- https://datasciencetut.com/how-to-create-anatogram-plot-in-r/
- https://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/widget-gallery.html
