On July 28 I had the pleasure of leading a tutorial titled Make a Census Explorer with Shiny! at the San Francisco R-ladies Meetup. A big thank you to Gabriela de Queiroz for organizing the event, Sharethrough for hosting it, and all the participants for attending. If you are interested in seeing the slides, you can do so here. If you are interested in seeing the final app that we made as part of the tutorial you can do so here. If you don’t know what Shiny is, or why one would want to use it to make a census explorer, you can click here. Here is a screenshot of the final app.
I’ve mentioned in the past that I am interested in creating an online course. I think that this tutorial would make a good course, and I am currently looking into production options. I should have more details in a few weeks.
I recently had the pleasure of writing two guest blog posts: