Producing Reports on the Global Impact of Pneumonia and Diarrhea
For the last 15 years, the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at Johns Hopkins University has produced an annual report on the impact of pneumonia and diarrhea around the world. In the past, the major challenge in putting this report together was time. Data would come in close to the deadline to release the report and it was a scramble to get everything ready.
In 2022, IVAC reached out to R for the Rest of Us about producing these reports with RMarkdown. Working together, we recreated the layout and data visualization that IVAC had previously done in Excel and Adobe InDesign. The final report looks identical to previous reports created by a graphic designer.
We really enjoyed working with the folks @IVACtweets to make this report (entirely with #rstats). Hope that it raises awareness of the impact of pneumonia and diarrhea on children throughout the world. https://t.co/25JFCb912G pic.twitter.com/FOdfrRu963
— R for the Rest of Us (@rfortherest) November 15, 2022
In addition to creating a global report, we also created country-level reports for some of the countries most impacted by pneumonia and diarrhea. The time crunch in previous years made producing country-level reports impossible.
Moving forward, IVAC also now has R code to create reports in future years. The scramble to produce the reports is over, and IVAC can focus on its larger mission of ensuring global access to life-saving vaccines.
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