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Creating dynamic dashboards with the shinydashboard R package

Creating dynamic dashboards with the shinydashboard R package

This course teaches how to build dynamic dashboards using the shinydashboard R package.

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About the Course

This course teaches how to use the shinydashboard R package. To get the most out of this course, open an R Session and follow the lessons. In each lesson you will see the shell of some code to copy into your R Session and edit to complete the tasks. At the end of each chapter is an application with the full solutions. By the end you should be able to build a simple dynamic dashboard! Enjoy!

Learning objectives

After taking this course you will be able to:

  • Build dynamic dashboards using the shinydashboard package
  • Style your dashboard using colors, icons, and custom CSS

How you will be graded

The course has a series of short quizzes. You will get two attempts at each quiz and your best score for each quiz will count toward your final score. If you receive more than 70% of the points across all quizzes you will pass. If you receive more than 90% of the points across all quizzes you will pass with honors. You get two attempts at the class with each class purchase.

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Instructor

About the Instructor

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

Lucy is an assistant professor at Wake Forest University. She is passionate about data science, causal inference, and human-data interaction. Lucy writes for the Live Free or Dichotomize Blog and can be found on Twitter @LucyStats.

Material

Course Material

  • Introduction

  • Dashboard Structure

  • Create empty Header, Sidebar, and Body

  • Create empty Header, Sidebar, and Body

    2 attempts allowed

  • Create an empty Shiny Dashboard

  • Create an empty Shiny Dashboard

    2 attempts allowed

  • Example application code

  • Dashboard Header overview

  • Create message menus

  • Create message menus

    2 attempts allowed

  • Create notification menus

  • Quiz 4

    2 attempts allowed

  • Create task menus

  • Create task menus

    2 attempts allowed

  • Example application code

  • Dashboard Sidebar and Body

  • Create Sidebar tabs

  • Create Sidebar tabs

    2 attempts allowed

  • Create Body tabs

  • Create Body tabs

    2 attempts allowed

  • Create tab boxes

  • Create tab boxes

    2 attempts allowed

  • Example application code

  • Reactive Expressions

  • Quiz 9

    2 attempts allowed

  • Reactive expression practice

  • Quiz 10

    2 attempts allowed

  • Example application code

  • Server-side dynamic how-to

  • Read in real-time data

  • Quiz 11

    2 attempts allowed

  • View real-time data

  • Quiz 12

    2 attempts allowed

  • Example application code

  • Optimizing performance

  • How many times will this code run?

    2 attempts allowed

  • UI dynamic how-to

  • Create reactive menu items

  • Quiz 14

    2 attempts allowed

  • Create reactive boxes

  • Quiz 15

    2 attempts allowed

  • Example application code

  • Bootstrap explanation

  • Create body with row-based layout

  • Quiz 16

    2 attempts allowed

  • Create body with column-based layout

  • Quiz 17

    2 attempts allowed

  • Create body with mixed layout

  • Example application code

  • Customizing the appearance

  • Change the appearance of the dashboard

  • Quiz 18

    2 attempts allowed

  • Customize the body with CSS

  • Quiz 19

    2 attempts allowed

  • Example application code

  • Icons, statuses, colors

  • Incorporate icons

  • Quiz 20

    2 attempts allowed

  • Add some color to your layouts

  • Example application code

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