What happened to that US National Security Strategy word-count plotting app?
A couple of days ago, I built a Shiny app that lets people use their web browsers to plot counts of terms in all 16 US National Security Strategy reports as a way to explore change over time in US national security concerns (here).
If you click on that link, you'll get what looks like a dead page, or at least a mummified one. In fact, the app still works. It's just that it's been such a hit -- in a social-science, data-nerd kind of way -- that we've already burned through the allotted 25 hours of free monthly server time!
The app should wink back to life in March, or whenever the shinyapps.io billing cycle resets. For now, if you use R or RStudio, you can run the app with these two lines of code (assuming you've already installed the package 'shiny'):
library(shiny)
runGitHub("national-security-strategy", "ulfelder")
Meanwhile, if anyone has a server with Shiny Server installed and is interested in hosting this app, please let me know via ulfelder <at> gmail.
