TV shows rated by episode as a Shiny App

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A few days ago there was an interesting R based article by diffuseprior on the decline and fall in the quality of The Simpsons

The author scraped results from GEOS, an online survey of TV programs, and applied the R package changepoint to offer an analysis of the show over time

This seemed a candidate for a Shiny App, as there are another gross of shows on GEOS. 24 follows a similar pattern to ‘The Simpsons’  although this well-defined decline is by no means universal

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.  Although using this app multiplies the quantity of charts available, its automation precludes some of the difficult-to-accomplish, data munging done in the original post e.g excluding specials. This will cause some distortion

I have adapted diffuseprior’s code in a few respects

  1. I used the the readHTMLTable from the XML package as the data is contained in a tabular form
  2. I used ggplot for the graph rather than base plot. This took a bit more work but enabled me to  display visually the relative number of voters for each episode of a show
  3. It is now available as a Shiny App , covering 145 shows, with any new GEOS votes incorporated in real-time

The code is available as a gist 5498431

Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/kac36dc

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7 thoughts on “TV shows rated by episode as a Shiny App”

    1. pssguy Post author

      Actually not sure it needs shinyIncubator . I carried it over by default from another app. I have removed
      from script now. Can you check you can access the page now/

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    1. pssguy Post author

      Thank Tal

      It’s always a toss-up between showing the full scale and not wasting space. I think if I was comparing shows I would probably have followed your suggestion
      Also I would have been more rigorous on analysis inc showing variance if it was other than a fun App

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