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Description
In today's digital landscape, the demand for making statistics more accessible and meaningful to the general public is increasing. This has led to the need for fast and efficient ways to disseminate statistical information, particularly when data visualisations must be produced quickly and updated frequently. In this context, Eurostat launched a project under the ESS Innovation Agenda and developed the eurostatRTool package in R, a tool designed to facilitate statistical data dissemination.
The package provides data producers with a robust and flexible environment for creating customisable HTML dashboards to visualise and analyse economic indicators. This customisation enables data producers to select the indicators to be included and the types of visualisations to be used, tailoring the tool to their specific needs. Customisation options also include the possibility to use a specific logo, insert text in a language different from English, and update the displayed texts using simple input in files.
This visualisation tool combines interactive graphical representation with text, making it possible to convey concise messages to the reader in a storytelling format. Once customised, the EurostatRTool will rapidly generate a set of HTML pages suitable for publication on a website, without additional software requirements. While flexible enough for many applications, this tool is particularly well-suited for displaying frequently updated data, such as monthly monitoring of statistical variables, offering various settings options, including:
-use of specific branding and visual identity
-easy updates of the storyboard with the use of text input files
-use of interactive presentations, such as graphs with interactive charts (time span, selection/deselection of variables, etc.) and table formats
-effortless updates for regular data changes
The tool is freely available on GitHub, with code and wiki documentation, at: https://github.com/eurostat/eurostatRTool
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| Keywords: Please list up to 5 keywords to help us find the right session for your contribution. | Dashboard, Visualisation, reproducible |
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| Interested in serving as reviewer? | antonio.grosso@ec.europa.eu |