posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Shiny Dashboards

Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Colin Rundel Workshop Duration: 1 Day Workshop This course is for you if you: • have some experience with Shiny and want to improve your skills, • are interested in building dashboards for reporting, and • want to learn about styling and theming your dashboard. In this workshop we will explore all of the interesting and variety of ways you can use Shiny: from adding dynamic elements to your existing RMarkdown / Quarto documents to building and deploying dashboards for reporting, and customizing the appearance and themeing of the app (and your outplots like plots and tables). This workshop assumes that you have a basic familiarity with Shiny (e.g. the ability to write simple apps and basics of reactivity)

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Hello, my name is Colin Rendell, and I'm a professor at Duke University in the Department of Statistical Science, and I've been teaching data science with R for a decade now. And I've been teaching Shiny specifically to our students since 2015. This year at PositConf, I'm teaching a one-day workshop on developing and deploying Shiny Dashboards.

Here are three reasons why you should consider taking this workshop.

Leveling up your Shiny skills

The first reason is to level up your Shiny skills. This is a workshop that is designed for our users who already have some basic experience with Shiny and are looking to improve their existing skills. We'll briefly review basic Shiny concepts around reactivity and app development, but we'll quickly expand beyond that into topics like dynamic user interfaces, modularization, and customization.

Customizing and theming your apps

With that said, the second reason you should take this is to learn how to customize your existing Shiny apps and make them look unique. One of the most powerful aspects of Shiny is that the app interface is just a webpage, and therefore pretty much anything that you can do with HTML, you can do with Shiny. And so in that vein, what we'll be discussing is various dashboard interfaces for Shiny. There's a lot of options out there. We'll talk about how they're different, how they're similar, and how they're implemented. And once you understand how they're implemented, that gives you an idea about how you then can customize them yourself.

In so doing, we'll also be touching on the larger Shiny extension ecosystem and how you can use that to further customize your app and simplify your own code. And then finally, we'll also be talking about options for theming. So in particular, if you're working on a Shiny app for a client, how you can customize your app to match your client's branding or other kinds of preferences for how it looks.

One of the most powerful aspects of Shiny is that the app interface is just a webpage, and therefore pretty much anything that you can do with HTML, you can do with Shiny.