Creating dynamic dashboards with the shinydashboard R package (The Course)
Course Info
This course includes 2 attempts.
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.
Course Material
- Introduction
- Dashboard Structure
- Create empty Header, Sidebar, and Body
- Create empty Header, Sidebar, and Body2 attempts allowed
- Create an empty Shiny Dashboard
- Create an empty Shiny Dashboard2 attempts allowed
- Example application code
- Dashboard Header overview
- Create message menus
- Create message menus2 attempts allowed
- Create notification menus
- Quiz 42 attempts allowed
- Create task menus
- Create task menus2 attempts allowed
- Example application code
- Dashboard Sidebar and Body
- Create Sidebar tabs
- Create Sidebar tabs2 attempts allowed
- Create Body tabs
- Create Body tabs2 attempts allowed
- Create tab boxes
- Create tab boxes2 attempts allowed
- Example application code
- Reactive Expressions
- Quiz 92 attempts allowed
- Reactive expression practice
- Quiz 102 attempts allowed
- Example application code
- Server-side dynamic how-to
- Read in real-time data
- Quiz 112 attempts allowed
- View real-time data
- Quiz 122 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 142 attempts allowed
- Create reactive boxes
- Quiz 152 attempts allowed
- Example application code
- Bootstrap explanation
- Create body with row-based layout
- Quiz 162 attempts allowed
- Create body with column-based layout
- Quiz 172 attempts allowed
- Create body with mixed layout
- Example application code
- Customizing the appearance
- Change the appearance of the dashboard
- Quiz 182 attempts allowed
- Customize the body with CSS
- Quiz 192 attempts allowed
- Example application code
- Icons, statuses, colors
- Incorporate icons
- Quiz 202 attempts allowed
- Add some color to your layouts
- Example application code
Instructors
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.
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