The data that I used was sourced from https://www.litterati.org/. The data we got from this site showed us various places where people picked up pieces of trash from the Forest Park area. I downloaded the data and created a table out of the CSV formatted file that allowed me to change some things around.
Some of the changes that I made to the original file was to change were to change all the tags whose names were empty. I changed those to untagged so that I could still have a clear representation of the total number of pieces that people picked up.
From there, I would create new tables which would allow me to get specific pieces of data from my original table. With those tables, I could take the pieces I want, such as the total amount of tags or the amount of trash picked up by hour, and create graphs/tables that display exactly what I want. These graphs give us an insight on meaningful data that we can extrapolate from the data set.
With these graphs, we can place everything on out Shiny app where it becomes presentable.