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Creating Dashboards with shinydashboard

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Course Description

Once you've started learning tools for building interactive web applications with shiny, this course will translate this knowledge into building dashboards. Dashboards, a common data science deliverable, are pages that collate information, often tracking metrics from a live-updating data source. You'll gain more expertise using shiny while learning to build and design these dynamic dashboards. In the process, you'll pick up tips to optimize performance as well as best practices to create a visually appealing product.

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1
Building Static Dashboards
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In this chapter you will learn the basic structure of a Shiny Dashboard and how to fill it with static content.
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Dashboard structure overview
50 xp
Create empty Header, Sidebar, and Body
100 xp
Create an empty Shiny Dashboard
100 xp
Dashboard Header overview
50 xp
Create message menus
100 xp
Create notification menus
100 xp
Create task menus
100 xp
Dashboard Sidebar and Body overview
50 xp
Create Sidebar tabs
100 xp
Create Body tabs
100 xp
Create tab boxes
100 xp
2
Building Dynamic Dashboards
In this chapter you will learn how to add dynamic content to your Shiny Dashboard.
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Reactive expression refresher
50 xp
Review selectInput and sliderInput
100 xp
Reactive expression practice
100 xp
Server-side dynamic how-to
50 xp
Read in real-time data
100 xp
View real-time data
100 xp
Optimizing performance
50 xp
How many times will this code run? (1)
50 xp
How many times will this code run? (2)
50 xp
Optimize this
100 xp
UI dynamic how-to
50 xp
Create reactive menu items
100 xp
Create reactive boxes
100 xp
3
Customizing Style
In this chapter you will focus on customizing the style of your Shiny Dashboard.
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Bootstrap explanation
50 xp
Create body with row-based layout
100 xp
Create body with column-based layout
100 xp
Create body with mixed layout
100 xp
Customizing the appearance
50 xp
Change the appearance of the dashboard
100 xp
Customize the body with CSS
100 xp
Icons, statuses, colors
50 xp
Incorporate icons
100 xp
Add some life to your layouts
100 xp
4
Case Study
In this chapter you will participate in a case study, practicing the skills you have acquired in the previous chapters.
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Introduction to the NASA fireball data set
50 xp
Examine the variables in the data set
100 xp
Create a value box for the maximum velocity
100 xp
Create a value box for the maximum impact
100 xp
Create a value box for the maximum energy
100 xp
Dynamic refresher
50 xp
Make the value boxes dynamic
100 xp
Allow the user to input an alert threshold
100 xp
Create a dynamic plot of the location of fireballs
100 xp
Update the look of your new application
100 xp
Thank you!
50 xp

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datasets

NASA fireball dataset Starwars dataset

collaborators

Chester Ismay

Nick Solomon

prerequisites

Building Web Applications with Shiny in R

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins Department of Biostatistics

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