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An app made for the Edinburgh Science Festival 2023 as part of the probability and statistics sectionduring my maths outreach work. The repo contains a Shiny app that updates values in a histogram in real time. The aim is to show that the heights of (adult) visitors are normally distributed.

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Science-festival-histogram-app

Repo for a Shiny app that updates values in a histogram in real time.

Hypothesis: The heights of the visitors are normally distributed. As the height of humans stabilises after reaching adulthood, we can divide the visitors into categories:

  • adults (16 years or older) -> should be normally distributed but may be skewed
  • children (0-15 years old) -> most probably won’t be normally distributed due to age range (still growing)

Running on a server

The app runs on a server so one only needs an internet connection and a browser to use. Open the Google Sheet used in the server.R file, e.g. heights_data_GS. The adults' data is initialised with the heights of team members at the last MOT meeting, the children's heights are arbitrary. The participants will have the option to report their height in feet+inches or cm. View the histogram here

Running locally

No need for a browser/internet connection. Update the height values in the heights_data.xlsx sheet, open the shiny_histogram.R app in Rstudio and run the app.

The data in the histogram shown is refreshed every 10 seconds.

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An app made for the Edinburgh Science Festival 2023 as part of the probability and statistics sectionduring my maths outreach work. The repo contains a Shiny app that updates values in a histogram in real time. The aim is to show that the heights of (adult) visitors are normally distributed.

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