My First Shiny App: Analyzing PSSA Test Results Introduction Being a father of two elementary school students in Philadelphia – and just returning from India last year – I knew I had to learn about the PSSA’s. I knew that a lot of importance is placed on these standardized exams, but I had no idea what they tested and how they were used. While spending some time on the Pennsylvania Department of Education web site, I discovered test result data in Excel spreadsheets available for the last 5 years.
Introduction I found this dataset by chance on data.world and it immediately sparked in interest as I have two small children and recently moved to India in 2017. The data is organized by state and specific crime from 2001 to 2012. It is a bit dated and not as granular as I would like (by city would have been nice), but the dataset is still worth exploring and practicing some basic skills.