Lecture 14: Dashboards (Flexdash, Shiny, Quarto Dashboards)

DSAN 5200-03: Advanced Data Visualization

Abhijit Dasgupta

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Jeff Jacobs

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Anderson Monken

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Marck Vaisman

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Administrative Details

86% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes!!! Pic unrelated

Compartmentalize!

• Division of labor \(\longleftrightarrow\) .qmd files!
• Then, literally:
  • Website is one possible combination of .qmd files
  • Poster is another possible combination of .qmd files (more on this later)
  • Manuscript is a third possible combination of .qmd files
  • PDF is a fourth possible combination of .qmd files
  • …and so on!

Tableau: The Final Missing Piece

1. Everything we did last week
2. Right click on “Cluster”
3. Compute Using → Zipcode
4. Profit 💰🤑📈

Dashboards 1.0

• Flexdashboard
• Shiny

Flexdashboard

• The most important article!

Shiny

• Flexdashboard + Interactivity

Dashboards 2.0

Quarto Dashboards!

• See here for full details
• The core idea, however, is just: Compartmentalize!

Development vs. Production

Placeholders (Plz Use Them)

• Lorem Ipsum is sometimes helpful but…
• print("Student data table here") is more helpful!
• You will run out of usable brain cells if you try to design the projects while coding their functionality
  • (plz plz I beg you, pretty please)