UHI Explorer is a R Shiny app to dsiplay data on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect in major US cities.
- On the left sidebar, select city to examine
- Map tab displays an interactive choropleth map of the UHI data.
- Population Chart tab displays a bar chart of the population in different ranges of UHI effect
- Data Table tab displays a table of the data.
- About tab gives more information on the app.
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UHI data is from an analysis by Climate Central.
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Census tract geometries and populations were obtained with the {tidycensus} R package. Data are from the 2020 Decennial census.
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To speed up app, census data for all tracts in UHI data were pre-downloaded in get_census_tracts.R