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Use R’s Shiny package to create data-driven, interactive web applications.
In this hands-on course, you will learn how to use R Shiny to create data-driven web applications. By the end of the course, you will have created an interactive web application that highlights the biodiversity of America's National Parks. Your application will feature an interactive map, biodiversity calculator, trail journal and species images. Using R Shiny, you will expand your data analysis and visualization skills while developing a way to share and distribute your findings in an application. If you are a beginner level data professional, a student, a researcher, an academic marketing analyst, business and data analyst, or financial analyst, this course is for you.
This four week course will give you a foundation for making and deploying Shiny applications. Along the way you will learn about user interaction (UI) controls, persistent data storage using google sheets, customizing your application with CSS and publishing through shinyapps.io. You will create your own unique application(s) that you can share with friends, colleagues, and potential employers.
Course Requirement: Computer that can run R/RStudio - shinyapps.io account (free) needed to deploy to the web.
Prior experience with R and RStudio is a plus.
This course is meant to teach the basics of building an app using RShiny. It presents a general introduction to the capabilities of RShiny with a particular focus on "learning by doing." At the end of each week of instruction, you'll complete a "wrap-up exercise" and quiz that reinforce the techniques you've learned.
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I have never worked with RShiny or any programming language before. Should I take a beginner course prior to taking this course?
You've come to the right place. This course is built for beginners with limited experience with R and RStudio
What is the value of the verified track?
Beyond the certificate which you can post on LinkedIn and other social media channels to show off your accomplishment to others, you will also gain valuable supplementary matertials to dive deeper and take the next step beyond the audit track content to learn deeper within RShiny.
