beyond-dashboard-fatigue

This repository contains supporting code from an RStudio webinar about using automated email notifications as an alternative to dashboard overload. It demonstrates how to create dynamic, data-driven email reports using R packages like blastula and gt instead of relying solely on dashboards that may be viewed once and forgotten.

The approach solves common data team challenges by delivering targeted information directly to decision makers’ inboxes. The included examples show how to build automated notifications for data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, and routine KPI reporting. The code demonstrates integrating visualization packages (ggplot2), table formatting (gt), and email composition (blastula) to create reproducible, condition-triggered alerts that can be automated using cron or RStudio Connect.