Olympics Shiny App

During summer 2021, I took a data visualization and acquisition course at the University of Kansas as part of the Applied Statistics, Analytics, and Data Science graduate program. The final project of the course was to visualize real world data interactively by creating an R Shiny app. While brainstorming ideas for my Shiny app, I found a historical Olympic Games data set from the Tidy Tuesday weekly data project located in the R for Data Science GitHub repository.

Cleaning HTML Code in R

Working at ATLAS involves a lot of student assessment data, including text responses. For certain projects, the data are sent to our team with residual HTML code in the text response strings, for example, It’s might appear as It's, since the HTML code for an apostrophe is denoted by '. To make these responses more readable, it is helpful to clean, or replace, the HTML markup with the equivalent symbols.