Innovation at Grinnell
Project Summary
GrinnOvation aims to show Innovation at Grinnell, mainly directed toward our Alumni audience. Here we link innovation to the different activities Grinnell college students do whilst in college, such as MAPs and Student Orgs, and after graduating. For instance, our app shows the different relationships between students who did MAPs in a certain major and their graduation outcomes. GrinnOvation puts effort into displaying student opinions so that our users can understand what it feels like to be a student here.
Describe your process to develop your app
The steps we took to develop our app after our first client meeting:
1. Created screen mockups and
2. Wireframes;
3. Converted the wireframes into R code;
4. Data collection;
5. Added the data to the code.
Any challenges?
- Halfway through our project, we had to shift the complete purpose of the project after a meeting with a CLS representative, where we realized that the goal of our project was to show what Grinnell is currently like from a student perspective.
If you were to continue this project, what would be the next steps?
- Adding more student opinions on other facilities and departments like the Wilson Center, Dining Facilities, and On-campus jobs.
- Adding more visual graphs and making sure our app is keyboard and screen reader accessible.
Acknowledgments
Photo Resources
- Cultural Evening. Grinnell College Office of Student Affairs, https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/student-affairs/oisa/student-organizations
- Food Bazaar. Grinnell College Office of Student Affairs, https://www.grinnell.edu/about/leadership/offices-services/student-affairs/oisa/student-organizations
- Tie Dye Fun. Grinnell College Office of Development and Alumni Relations, https://alumni.grinnell.edu/events
- Softball Swing. Evan Hein, https://thesandb.com/43027/article/softball-matches-nationally-ranked-coe-college-in-doublehe ader/
- Mbira Ensemble. Owen Barbato, https://thesandb.com/43017/article/spotlight-on-zimbabwean-mbira-ensemble/
- Pedal Grinnell. Paul Hansen, https://thesandb.com/42972/article/photo-gallery-pedal-grinnell-opens-for-spring-season/
- Latin American Ensemble. Ohana Sarvotham, https://thesandb.com/42896/article/spotlight-on-latin-american-ensemble/
Additional Resources
- Our peers, class mentor, professor, Vivero fellows, and project mentor.
- The Office of Developmental and Alumni Relations.
- Center for Career Life and Services.
- Registrar’s Office.
- Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
- Jackson, Daniel. The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design. Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Moran, Tom. System Design. Dimensions of Evaluation for User-System Performance.
- Code for formatting package citations taken from Jade’s individual project.
Packages
- Attali D. (2021). shinyjs: Easily Improve the User Experience of Your Shiny Apps in Seconds. R package version 2.1.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=shinyjs
- Chang W., Cheng J., Allaire J., Sievert C., Schloerke B., Xie Y., Allen J., McPherson J., Dipert A., Borges B. (2022). shiny: Web Application Framework for R. R package version 1.7.4.
- Perrier V., Meyer F., Granjon D. (2023). shinyWidgets: Custom Inputs Widgets for Shiny. R package version 0.7.6, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=shinyWidgets.
- Sievert C. (2020). Interactive Web-Based Data Visualization with R, plotly, and Shiny. R package version 4.10.1, https://plotly-r.com.
- Wickham H., Bryan J. (2023). readxl: Read Excel Files. R package version 1.4.2, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readxl.
- Wickham H., Vaughan D., Girlich M. (2023). tidyr: Tidy Messy Data. R package version 1.3.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tidyr.
- Barnier J. (2023). shinyglide: Glide Component for Shiny Applications. R package version 0.1.4, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=shinyglide.
- Wickham H., François R., Henry L., Müller K., Vaughan D. (2023). dplyr: A Grammar of Data Manipulation. R package version 1.1.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dplyr.
