Introduction:

This assignment challenged us to use Shiny to create an interactive graph that explores data from the COVID-19 pandemic collected by Kieran Healy.
NOTE: due to restrictions on RStudioCloud processing resources, I am unable to update the covdata package, so this will not show data past the end of May, 2020.

I wanted to create a graph that allows the user to view data from all US States, but also to highlight states that are specifically interesting to them. This allows the state data to display clearly, while also maintaining the context of the other states. I also wanted to explore the effects of policy changes on this data, so I added a table of these policies (and tied the data to the graph selections).

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