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 an empty Shiny Dashboard
- Example application code
- Dashboard Header overview
- Create message menus
- Create notification menus
- Create task menus
- Example application code
- Dashboard Sidebar and Body
- Create Sidebar tabs
- Create Body tabs
- Create tab boxes
- Example application code
- Reactive Expressions
- Reactive expression practice
- Example application code
- Server-side dynamic how-to
- Read in real-time data
- View real-time data
- Example application code
- Optimizing performance
- UI dynamic how-to
- Create reactive menu items
- Create reactive boxes
- Example application code
- Bootstrap explanation
- Create body with row-based layout
- Create body with column-based layout
- Create body with mixed layout
- Example application code
- Customizing the appearance
- Change the appearance of the dashboard
- Customize the body with CSS
- Example application code
- Icons, statuses, colors
- Incorporate icons
- 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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