This website is new as of winter 2024! Original course materials were maintained in a separate repository (EDS430-Shiny) and hosted at https://ucsb-meds.github.io/EDS430-Shiny/#/banner -- these original materials will no longer be maintained. Please refer to this website for the most up-to-date version of teaching materials.
This website houses materials which accompany the 1-unit, 2-day, hands-on coding workshop, EDS 430 - Intro to Shiny, offered through the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, in partnership with the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis.
In this workshop, students will learn how to build and deploy Shiny applications. The {shiny} package provides a framework that allows R users to build interactive web applications and dashboards, and has become a popular tool for sharing data analyses and data-derived outputs with broad audiences. In this two-part short course, students will learn the fundamentals of reactivity, how to customize an application user interface (UI), best practices and workflows for developing shiny apps, and how to deploy their apps online via RStudio’s hosting service, shinyapps.io.
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