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title: "Visualising the History of openSenseMap.org"
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author: "Norwin Roosen"
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date: '`r Sys.Date()`'
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output:
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rmarkdown::html_vignette:
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df_print: kable
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fig_height: 5
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fig_width: 7
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toc: yes
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html_document:
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code_folding: hide
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df_print: kable
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theme: lumen
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toc: yes
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toc_float: yes
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vignette: |
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%\VignetteIndexEntry{Visualising the History of openSenseMap.org} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
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---
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```{r setup, results='hide', message=FALSE, warning=FALSE}
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# required packages:
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library(opensensmapr) # data download
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library(dplyr) # data wrangling
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library(ggplot2) # plotting
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library(lubridate) # date arithmetic
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library(zoo) # rollmean()
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```
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openSenseMap.org has grown quite a bit in the last years; it would be interesting
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to see how we got to the current amount of sensor stations, especially split up
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by various attributes of the boxes.
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```{r counts}
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# current number of sensor stations registered on the platform
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osem_counts()$boxes
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```
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While `opensensmapr` provides extensive methods of filtering boxes by attributes
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on the server, we do the filtering within R to save time and gain flexibility.
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So the first step is to retrieve *all the boxes*:
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```{r download}
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# if you want to see results for a specific subset of boxes,
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# just specify a filter such as grouptag='ifgi' here
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boxes = osem_boxes()
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```
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# Plot count of boxes by time {.tabset}
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By looking at the `createdAt` attribute of each box we know the exact time a box
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was registered.
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With this approach we have no information about boxes that were deleted in the
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meantime, but that's okay for now.
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## ...and exposure
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```{r exposure_counts, message=FALSE}
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exposure_counts = boxes %>%
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group_by(exposure) %>%
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mutate(count = row_number(createdAt))
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exposure_colors = c(indoor = 'red', outdoor = 'lightgreen', mobile = 'blue', unknown = 'darkgrey')
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ggplot(exposure_counts, aes(x = createdAt, y = count, colour = exposure)) +
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geom_line() +
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scale_colour_manual(values = exposure_colors) +
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xlab('Registration Date') + ylab('senseBox count')
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```
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Outdoor boxes are growing *fast*!
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We can also see the introduction of `mobile` sensor "stations" in 2017. While
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mobile boxes are still few, we can expect a quick rise in 2018 once the new
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[senseBox MCU with GPS support is released](https://sensebox.de/blog/2018-03-06-senseBox_MCU).
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Let's have a quick summary:
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```{r exposure_summary}
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exposure_counts %>%
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summarise(
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oldest = min(createdAt),
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newest = max(createdAt),
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count = max(count)
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) %>%
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arrange(desc(count))
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```
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## ...and grouptag
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We can try to find out where the increases in growth came from, by analysing the
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box count by grouptag.
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Caveats: Only a small subset of boxes has a grouptag, and we should assume
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that these groups are actually bigger. Also, we can see that grouptag naming is
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inconsistent (`Luftdaten`, `luftdaten.info`, ...)
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```{r grouptag_counts, message=FALSE}
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grouptag_counts = boxes %>%
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group_by(grouptag) %>%
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# only include grouptags with 8 or more members
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filter(length(grouptag) >= 8 && !is.na(grouptag)) %>%
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mutate(count = row_number(createdAt))
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# helper for sorting the grouptags by boxcount
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sortLvls = function(oldFactor, ascending = TRUE) {
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lvls = table(oldFactor) %>% sort(., decreasing = !ascending) %>% names()
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factor(oldFactor, levels = lvls)
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}
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grouptag_counts$grouptag = sortLvls(grouptag_counts$grouptag, ascending = FALSE)
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ggplot(grouptag_counts, aes(x = createdAt, y = count, colour = grouptag)) +
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geom_line(aes(group = grouptag)) +
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xlab('Registration Date') + ylab('senseBox count')
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```
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```{r grouptag_summary}
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grouptag_counts %>%
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summarise(
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oldest = min(createdAt),
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newest = max(createdAt),
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count = max(count)
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) %>%
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arrange(desc(count))
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```
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# Plot rate of growth and inactivity per week
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First we group the boxes by `createdAt` into bins of one week:
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```{r growthrate_registered, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE, results='hide'}
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bins = 'week'
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mvavg_bins = 6
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# get number of sensebox registrations by date
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growth = boxes %>%
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mutate(week = cut(as.Date(createdAt), breaks = bins)) %>%
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group_by(week) %>%
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summarize(count = length(week)) %>%
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mutate(event = 'registered')
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```
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We can do the same for `updatedAt`, which informs us about the last change to
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a box, including uploaded measurements.
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This method of determining inactive boxes is fairly inaccurate and should be
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considered an approximation, because we have no information about intermediate
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inactive phases.
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Also deleted boxes would probably have a big impact here.
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```{r growthrate_inactive, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE, results='hide'}
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# get number of boxes boxes becoming inactive by date
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inactive = boxes %>%
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# updatedAt gets updated with each measurement, so we can use it as indicator for activity
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# remove boxes that were not updated in the last two days,
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# b/c any box becomes inactive at some point by definition of updatedAt
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filter(updatedAt < now() - days(2)) %>%
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mutate(week = cut(as.Date(updatedAt), breaks = bins)) %>%
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group_by(week) %>%
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summarize(count = length(week)) %>%
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mutate(event = 'inactive')
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```
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Now we can combine both datasets for plotting:
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```{r growthrate, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE, results='hide'}
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boxes_by_date = bind_rows(growth, inactive) %>% group_by(event)
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ggplot(boxes_by_date, aes(x = as.Date(week), colour = event)) +
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xlab('Time') + ylab(paste('rate per ', bins)) +
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scale_x_date(date_breaks="years", date_labels="%Y") +
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scale_colour_manual(values = c(registered = 'lightgreen', inactive = 'grey')) +
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geom_point(aes(y = count), size = 0.5) +
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# moving average, make first and last value NA (to ensure identical length of vectors)
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geom_line(aes(y = rollmean(count, mvavg_bins, fill = list(NA, NULL, NA))))
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```
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We see a sudden rise in early 2017, which lines up with the fast growing grouptag `Luftdaten`.
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This was enabled by an integration of openSenseMap.org into the firmware of the
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air quality monitoring project <https://luftdaten.info>.
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The dips in mid 2017 and early 2018 could possibly be explained by production/delivery issues,
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but I have no data on the exact time frames to verify.
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# Plot duration of boxes being active {.tabset}
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While we are looking at `createdAt` and `updatedAt`, we can also extract the duration of activity
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of each box, and look at metrics by exposure and grouptag again:
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## ...by exposure
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```{r exposure_duration, message=FALSE}
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duration = boxes %>%
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group_by(exposure) %>%
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filter(!is.na(updatedAt)) %>%
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mutate(duration = difftime(updatedAt, createdAt, units='days'))
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ggplot(duration, aes(x = exposure, y = duration)) +
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geom_boxplot() +
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coord_flip() + ylab('Duration active in Days')
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```
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## ...by grouptag
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```{r grouptag_duration, message=FALSE}
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duration = boxes %>%
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group_by(grouptag) %>%
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# only include grouptags with 8 or more members
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filter(length(grouptag) >= 8 && !is.na(grouptag) && !is.na(updatedAt)) %>%
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mutate(duration = difftime(updatedAt, createdAt, units='days'))
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ggplot(duration, aes(x = grouptag, y = duration)) +
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geom_boxplot() +
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coord_flip() + ylab('Duration active in Days')
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duration %>%
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summarize(
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duration_avg = round(mean(duration)),
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duration_min = round(min(duration)),
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duration_max = round(max(duration)),
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oldest_box = round(max(difftime(now(), createdAt, units='days')))
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) %>%
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arrange(desc(duration_avg))
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```
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## ...by year of registration
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This is less useful, as older boxes are active for a longer time by definition.
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If you have an idea how to compensate for that, please send a [Pull Request][PR]!
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```{r year_duration, message=FALSE}
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# NOTE: boxes older than 2016 missing due to missing updatedAt in database
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duration = boxes %>%
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mutate(year = cut(as.Date(createdAt), breaks = 'year')) %>%
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group_by(year) %>%
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filter(!is.na(updatedAt)) %>%
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mutate(duration = difftime(updatedAt, createdAt, units='days'))
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ggplot(duration, aes(x = substr(as.character(year), 0, 4), y = duration)) +
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geom_boxplot() +
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coord_flip() + ylab('Duration active in Days') + xlab('Year of Registration')
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```
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# More Visualisations
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Other visualisations come to mind, and are left as an exercise to the reader.
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If you implemented some, feel free to add them to this vignette via a [Pull Request][PR].
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* growth by phenomenon
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* growth by location -> (interactive) map?
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* set inactive rate in relation to total box count
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* filter timespans with big dips in growth rate, and extrapolate the amount of
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senseBoxes that could be on the platform today, assuming there were no production issues ;)
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[PR]: https://github.com/noerw/opensensmapr/pulls
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