Visualising the Heavens

An Interactive Spatio-Temporal Visualization of Meteorites Discoveries

This project was developed by Data Dynamos For INFO 526 - Data Analysis & Visualization at the University of Arizona, taught by Dr. Greg Chism. The team is comprised of the following team members.

Deema Albluwi (Computational Linguistics, PhD).

Rahul Bangad (Data Science, Master’s).

Swati Das (Data Science, Master’s).

Ansh Kumar Dev (Data Science, Master’s).

Shakir Ahmed (Data Science, Master’s)

Data set:

The data is obtained from NASA. Data source: (https://data.nasa.gov/Space-Science/Meteorite-Landings/gh4g-9sfh/about_data)

Shiny app hosting:

🔗 The Shiny app is hosted on shinyapp.io website is present in this link: (https://rahulbangad.shinyapps.io/app1/))

Repo Organization

• .github: This directory contain files related to GitHub, such as workflows, issue templates, or other configurations.

• . _extra: Contains code, notes and other files used during experimentation. Contents of this folder is not a part of the final output.

• _freeze: The folder created to store files generated during project render.

• app1/: This folder contains the Shiny app scripts used to generate the interactive shiny visual for the project outline.

  • README.md describes the steps to run and generate the results using scripts

• data/: This folder contains data files or datasets that are used in the project.

  • README.md : A readme file that describes the datasets in more detail.

• images: This folder contains image files that are used in the project, such as illustrations, diagrams, or other visual assets.

• .gitignore: This file specifies which files or directories should be ignored by version control.

• README.md: This file usually contains documentation or information about the project. It's often the first thing someone reads when they visit the project repository.

• _quarto.yml: This is likely a configuration file

• about.qmd : This quarto document contains the information about team members.

• index.qmd : This quarto document contains the approach and analysis and results of the project.

• presentation.qmd : It contains the slides for the presentation.

• proposal.qmd : This quarto documents has the proposal of the project.

• project-final.Rproj : This is an RStudio project file, which helps organize R-related files and settings for the project.

Reference Links:

Shiny app deployment - https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/share/shinyapps/

Meteor landing visualization- https://rpubs.com/rubenfbc/interactive_maps_bb

Disclosure:

Derived from the original data viz course by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @ Duke University