Data Source - www.kaggle.com/chicago/chicago-energy-usage-2010
The data used for this project is from the website https://www.kaggle.com/chicago/chicago-energy-usage-2010 and the data is on the electricity and gas usage by census block in the city of Chicago to see how neighborhoods, type of buildings, age of buildings can affect how much power is used throughout the year. The first thing I did with the data file was to rename the census_block column to GEOID10 to match the GEOID10 column in the blocks file from the Tigris library. I removed all the unwanted columns from the data file and renamed the columns to a more appropriate name. I converted the census block column to character type and removed all the rows that had missing census block values and created the map view visualizations using the cleaned dataset, and made a reactive layout on the shiny dashboard for the users to do an in-depth analysis and comparison of the electricity and gas usage in the city of Chicago in 2010.