ScotSport - sports facilities in Scotland - Shiny Contest Submission

ScotSport - sports facilities in Scotland

Authors: Lesley Duff

Abstract: Sportscotland - the national agency for sport in Scotland has recorded the locations of sports facilities in Scotland and made that data available as an open data dataset. This app uses the data to show how many, where and what types of facility are available. This data has been processed and combined with other geographical and population information. Users can see locations on a map or search a table of addresses.

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About

Sportscotland - the national agency for sport in Scotland has recorded the locations of sports facilities in Scotland and made that data available as an open data dataset. This app uses the data to show how many, where and what types of facility are available. This data has been processed and combined with other geographical and population information.

For all of Scotland or for individual council areas the following information is available:

  • Map of Scotland showing how many facilities are in each council area
  • how many people per facility in their area
  • how many towns have at least one facility
  • The user can pick a town and see on a map where they are located. Clicking on the pins shows more detail about the facility
  • The type of facility and any subtype e.g, Pitches and Pitch - Football (5-a-side)
  • A searchable and filterable table of all records by the recorded address

Data sources

This app uses the following open data

  • Sports facilities - Sportscotland
  • Local authority boundaries - Improvement Service, Spatial Hub Scotland
  • Scottish population data - National Records of Scotland

Technical

This app is a Quarto Dashboard with Shiny for R. A separate Quarto profile is used to coordinate the downloading and cleaning scripts to generate the dataset that the Shiny app uses.


Shiny app: https://dataquine.shinyapps.io/scotsport/
Repo: GitHub - dataquine/scotsport: ScotSport - sports facilities in Scotland

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