What I built

An R Shiny app exploring the benefits of street trees.

Category Submission:

Programme for the people

App Link

app-dan-carpenter.co.uk/street_trees/

Screenshots

Description

An app exploring the benefits of planting trees in my street, including carbon sequestration and pollution removal

Link to Source Code

github.com/drdcarpenter/street_trees

Permissive License

MIT License

Background

My street only has two trees, but I think it should have more. Trees are great at storing and sequestering carbon as well as removing pollution from the air. More trees would make the street environment much better. The app explores how many trees could be planted and their benefits.

How I built it

I used Shiny in R to create the app and deployed to the app platform with a Dockerfile. I learned a lot about Dockerfiles in deploying this app.

Additional Resources/Info

See dan-carpenter.co.uk/2020/12/31/street_trees/ for more details on how I built this app.