Virtual useR! 2024

The buzz around the {shiny} package has only increased over the past year. Now, more and more R programmers use interactive dashboards to share their data insights with a diverse stakeholder audience – from their colleagues to project managers and sponsors. But even for seasoned R programmers, any dashboard or application development is a resource intensive process and, if not planned carefully, can cause the team delays on the project deliveries, or worse, suboptimal user acceptance rates. Quick and targeted prototyping can prevent many of these situations from happening. This talk is aimed at fellow data scientists who want to start implementing {shiny} applications in their workflow but have little to no background in web application development. In this presentation, the author shares lessons learned from their own mistakes during the development of various production ready {shiny} applications to help novice developers avoid similar pitfalls. The attendees will see strategies for creating and testing a quick user-interface mock-up design using {fakir} and {shinipsum} packages. Additionally, they will learn how to translate the prototype into a minimum viable product design.