Overview

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Background

This is an example of an interactive dashboard built using R Markdown, flexdashboard, Plotly, and crosstalk.

It’s probably most useful to look at this in conjunction with the source code on GitHub and a blog post I wrote about some aspects of the implementation.

Daily time series

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Number of flights

Delayed flights

Top destinations

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Top destinations by carrier

Fancy top destinations

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Top destinations by carrier

Top destinations GONE WRONG

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Top destinations by carrier

What is this?

This is a demonstration of how terribly wrong things can go if you don’t manage to set a default value for the controls on a page: before the user selects an airline, they can see all the data at once, which is really not what we want. The Top destinations page shows how it should work.