Leveraging Data in a Volunteer Fire Department
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About 70% of US fire departments are volunteer run and one rural department replaces paper forms with R Shiny frontends, Python scripts, and an AWS free tier backend to cut manual work. The project delivers three apps: QR‑code check‑in for training, an incident reporting app that captures apparatus, crew, and billing items, and a data portal showing individual training hours (64 hours required annually). Apps run on shinyapps.io, are in active use, and generate invoices and reports.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Volunteer firefighting data challenges
- 3:40Manual data tracking
- 7:58Shiny apps for data collection
- 9:47Data portal and training hours
- 11:52Future data-driven goals
- 13:56App impact and response
- 15:00Conclusion & Q&A
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