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Abstract:
Building on last month's great overview of ggplot/ggvis/ggmap, Daniel Chen will be showcasing R and Shiny for this meetup.
Data exploration typically requires interacting with our plots. Shiny gives us a quick way to view, interact, share, and publish visualizations. We will briefly cover Knitr and RMarkdown documents and move into Shiny documents. We will end with creating a standalone Shiny App using a publicly available data set on the 2014 Ebola outbreak [1].
Shiny is an R package and framework that allows you to build interactive analysis and web applications using R code.
You can learn more about Shiny here: http://shiny.rstudio.com/
Bio:
Daniel Chen is currently graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Genetics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (GBCB [2]) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and works as a graduate research assistant in the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI [3]) in the Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory (SDAL [4]) doing computational modeling of attitude diffusion in social networks. He holds a masters in Epidemiology from Columbia University and earned his bachelor degree in Psychology from the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY Hunter College with a concentration in behavioral neuroscience and minors in computer science and biology. He hopes to work on the infrastructure and software needed to bring 'big data' to healthcare analytics.
Syllabus:
- Knitr (http://yihui.name/knitr/) primer
- Basic ebola (https://github.com/chendaniely/ebola/tree/dev-dan-shiny/data_products/shinyCountryTimeseries) plot
- Interactive Shiny documents (http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_shiny.html)
- Interactive Shiny app (http://shiny.rstudio.com/)
Talk, slides, code, apps, etc:
https://github.com/chendaniely/2015-04-15-SPDC-shiny
[1] https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola
[2] http://gbcb.vbi.vt.edu/
[3] vbi.vt.edu (http://vbi.vt.edu/)
[4] sdal.vbi.vt.edu (http://sdal.vbi.vt.edu/)
Dan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/chendaniely
Agenda:
6:30-7:00 Food & socializing
7:00-7:10 Intros and announcements
7:10-8:30 Program
8:30ish Off to data drinks!
R/Shiny