The project was documented in the blog post here and the resulting app can be opened [here] (http://runzemc.shinyapps.io/factual/).
Many thanks to Ramnath, his rCharts pacakage, and his bike-sharing app/tutorial.
The data
folder includes the parsed place categories provided by Factual and the package
directory includes all the non-standard Python modules used in the program (via rPython.).