statwonk/openfda-dashboard repository overview

⁠OpenFDA Dashboard

An instance of the OpenFDA dashboard⁠.

The United State Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a public API February 2014. This dashboard's purpose is to help make the FDA's hosted data⁠ more accessible to the public.

⁠Quickstart

To set up your own instance of the dashboard:

1. Install Docker⁠ (e.g. Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install docker.io)

For more resources on Docker, checkout: https://www.docker.com/tryit/⁠

1. docker pull statwonk/openfda-dashboard
2. docker run --rm -p 3838:3838 statwonk/openfda-dashboard

This will download a docker image⁠ based on Ubuntu, RStudio's shiny-server⁠, and finish up by downloading and launching the dashboard hosted in this repository.

1. Visit localhost:3838 (or if on Mac OS X, the ip address returned from boot2docker ip + :3838 to view the dashbaord locally!