GitHub - bspinneruo/capstone-data-viz: This interactive Shiny dashboard visualizes trends in out-of-school suspensions and corporal punishment across U.S. states from 1972–2020, with a focus on racial disparities and the impact of corporal punishment bans. Built with flexdashboard, leaflet, and plotly.

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# Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Explorer Dashboard

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**Explore the interactive dashboard** [here](https://bspinneruo.shinyapps.io/shiny_capstone/)

🚀 Features
	•	📍 State-level adoption of corporal punishment bans since 2020
	•	🗺️ Choropleth maps of average suspension and corporal punishment rates
	•	📈 Time-series plots of OSS and corporal punishment trends by race
	•	🔮 Counterfactual predictions using log-based linear models for states that did not implement bans
	•	🧪 Interactive selection tools for state-by-state racial equity analysis

🛠️ Built With
	•	flexdashboard
	•	shiny
	•	plotly
	•	leaflet
	•	ggplot2
	•	tidyverse
	•	sf

📊 Data Sources
	•	U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)
	•	State-level discipline policy records
	•	Aggregated treatment datasets for corporal punishment bans and implementation year

👩‍💻 Author

Brittany Spinner, M.Ed., M.S., Ph.D. Candidate
Doctoral Researcher, Quantitative Research Methods in Education

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This interactive Shiny dashboard visualizes trends in out-of-school suspensions and corporal punishment across U.S. states from 1972–2020, with a focus on racial disparities and the impact of corporal punishment bans. Built with flexdashboard, leaflet, and plotly.

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