Extending Shiny By Enhancing User Experience With `shinyLP`

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Jasmine Dumas | @jasdumas | jasdumas.github.io

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Hi Portland!

I’m Jasmine Dumas
- Data Scientist and useR living in Connecticut
- Work at Simple Finance based in Portland, OR
- Author of ttbbeer and shinyLP
Slides and Materials available on GitHub:
- jasdumas/talks/PDX-R-user-group

simple-logo

A quick refresher of `shiny` before we get started!

Transforms static R code into interactive reports and dashboards
No need to learn web development languages
- CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery
free or low cost hosting options for shinyapps.io & shiny server
Shiny is extendable and modular

I began buildng `shiny` apps in 2014

Focused on creating a user friendly tool for biologists to analyze gene expression data
- Worked towards understanding how non-R users would utilize the app

shinyGEO

Why should you care about this?

shiny apps are becoming more advanced and if we don’t incorporate user experience (UX) features, users may have difficulty using the app as intended
- Especially non-technical users

What could go wrong when we don’t include user experience features?