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Shiny

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Making a reproducible RShiny application

Technical Skills 15/04/2022

In a previous post we wrote an article about an RShiny app for exploring traffic accidents in Scotland. Unfortunately, if we wanted to run this application today, we would face compatibility issues. Imagine, if as an organisation we decided to deploy this application somewhere else or a colleague, client or any user wanted to run […]

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Tags: environment management, package management, python, reproducibility, Shiny, technical debt

Using Shiny for interactive displays of health data: The Scottish Burden of Diseases

Technical Skills 09/05/2019

The Accelerator programme run by The Data Lab between 19 April 2018 – 06 September 2018 was a Scottish Government collaborative project, open to employees of the Scottish Government, the Information Services Division, the National Records of Scotland and Registers of Scotland. Employees applying to take part had a background in statistics, economics, operational research and social […]

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Tags: Shiny

Four tips for creating interactive visualisations with Shiny

Technical Skills 08/05/2019

I’ve recently presented a toy Shiny app at the Edinburgh Data Visualization Meetup to demonstrate how Shiny can be used to explore data interactively. In my code-assisted walkthrough, I began by discussing the data used: a set of records detailing customer purchases made on Black Friday (i.e., each customer was given a unique ID, which was repeated […]

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Tags: data visualisation, Shiny

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