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AI-Powered Data Engineering Workflows: Positron for Databricks Users
Modern data engineering demands more. Move beyond the limitations of hosted notebooks and embrace the power of an IDE for modern data engineering.
We’ll show you how Positron combines the best of local development with the scale of Databricks.
In this session led by James Blair at Posit, we’ll cover:
- AI-Driven Development: Moving from concept to code faster with built-in AI.
- Seamless Exploration: Navigating data effortlessly with the Catalog Explorer.
- Production-Grade Pipelines: Building, testing, and deploying robust workflows.
Helpful Links: Download Positron: https://positron.posit.co/ Databricks Asset Bundles: http://docs.databricks.com/dev-tools/bundles GitHub Repo for Demo: https://github.com/blairj09/databricks-data-engineering Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines: http://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/ldp Talk to us about integrating Posit & Databricks: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/
Take Positron to Work with Positron Pro
While you’ve downloaded Positron on your desktop and are loving it, you may still have a few questions about using it at work:
- What happens when my analysis requires more memory than my laptop has?
- How can I bring Positron into my company’s secure environment?
- How can I access data in Databricks or Snowflake from Positron?
Nick Rohrbaugh, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Posit shares how Positron Pro, available exclusively within Posit Workbench, transforms from a powerful desktop editor into a fully governed, enterprise-ready IDE.
In this webinar, you will learn how:
- Data teams get immediate access to scalable, server-side compute and secure, one-click data authorization.
- IT leaders can centralize, secure, and manage Positron alongside RStudio, Jupyter, and VS Code, all from a single platform.
Helpful links: Positron: https://posit.co/products/ide/positron/ Posit Workbench: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/workbench/
AI-Powered Data Science in Positron
We’re so excited to introduce Positron, a free, next-generation data science IDE that makes it easy to work in both R and Python. Positron builds on our years of experience developing RStudio and is a fork of VS Code, designed specifically for data work. This means you get a modern coding interface with features tailored for data science, like a built-in data explorer, AI assistance, interpreter management, and more.
This is our 2nd event in our Positron series and focused on AI-Powered Data Science.
Here at Posit, we strive to create products where AI works with you, not against you. In efforts to continue this mission, we are excited to introduce agentic AI capabilities in Positron, our new, free code editor for R and Python, that are designed from the ground up to follow these principles. Positron’s AI capabilities automate the tedious parts of the data science workflow, but always keep you, the expert, in control.
00:00 Introduction 00:32 What is Positron? (The Next-Gen Data Science IDE) 03:43 Introducing Positron Assistant 05:10 Bring your own LLM 05:47 Your environment as context 07:19 Inline code suggestions 07:58 Introducing Databot 08:22 The WEAR loop 10:15 Demo time 10:56 Opening Positron Pro in Posit Team 14:29 Opening a new folder in Positron 15:22 Cloning a repo from GitHub 17:24 Positron icons 19:15 Positron search bar and command palette 20:18 Changing interpreters and opening a Quarto document 21:30 Running code and populating the Variables Pane 22:41 Using the Data Explorer 25:28 Creating a plot and debugging with Positron Assistant 30:46 Editing code using inline code suggestions 34:42 Sharing a Quarto document 36:12 Opening Databot 37:02 Exploring data with Databot 43:37 Creating a report using Databot findings 45:12 Wrap up
Additional resources: GitHub Repo for this Example: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron-ai-workshop Getting Started with Positron: Quick Tour: https://posit.co/resources/videos/get-started-with-positron-a-quick-tour-and-community-qa/ Introducing Databot (Blog Post): https://posit.co/blog/introducing-databot/ Posit AI Newsletter: https://posit.co/blog/2025-09-26-ai-newsletter/ Positron Assistant: https://positron.posit.co/assistant.html
What can you do with Positron Assistant?
Positron Assistant is an AI client integrated within Positron, designed to enhance data science workflows.
Positron Assistant brings LLM integration for both chat and inline code completions.This tool is built to assist with a range of tasks, including generating and refactoring code, answering questions, providing debugging support, and offering insightful suggestions for next steps in your projects. It can interact with the Variables pane, Plots pane, and the Console in your IDE.
Capabilities include:
• Editor inline chat (chat with Positron Assistant in your script to augment your code) • Contextual code completion (add instructional comments to your scripts to complete code) • Agent-assisted workflows (allow Positron Assistant to execute tasks autonomously)
Learn more about Positron Assistant: https://positron.posit.co/assistant.html Sign up for our Workflow Demo on October 29, where we will demonstrate Positron Assistant: https://posit.co/workflow-demo/ai-powered-data-science-in-positron/
Deploying Scikit-learn models for in-database scoring with Snowflake and Posit Team
Modern data science workflows often face a critical challenge: how to efficiently deploy machine learning models where the data lives. Traditional approaches require moving large datasets out of the database for scoring, creating bottlenecks, security concerns, and unnecessary data movement costs.
In this demo, Nick Pelikan at Posit highlights how orbital bridges the gap between Python’s rich ML ecosystem and database-native execution by converting scikit-learn pipelines to optimized SQL. This enables data scientists to:
- Use familiar Python tools for model development
- Automatically translate complex feature engineering to SQL
- Deploy models without rewriting code in different languages
- Maintain model accuracy through faithful SQL translations
While this example focuses on Python, Nick also gave this demo using Orbital for R users: https://youtu.be/pnEjYNgOG9c?feature=shared
Helpful resources:
- Follow-along blog post: https://posit.co/blog/snowflake-orbital-scikit-learn-models/
- Supported models for Orbital: https://orbital.tidymodels.org/articles/supported-models.html
- Orbital (Python) GitHub Repo: https://github.com/posit-dev/orbital
- Orbital (R) GitHub Repo: https://github.com/tidymodels/orbital
- Databricks and Orbital for R and Python model deployment: https://posit.co/blog/databricks-orbital-r-python-model-deployment/
- Emily Riederer’s XGBoost example with Orbital: https://www.emilyriederer.com/post/orbital-xgb/
- Sara Altman’s blog post on Shiny + Databases: https://posit.co/blog/shiny-with-databases/
- Emil’s introduction of orbital: https://emilhvitfeldt.com/talk/2024-08-13-orbital-positconf/
- Nick’s Blog on Running Tidymodel Prediction Workflows with Orbital: https://posit.co/blog/running-tidymodel-prediction-workflows-inside-databases/
If you’d like to learn more about using Posit Team, you can always schedule time to chat with Posit here: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/
Next-gen data science: a conversation with the Ravit Show and Eric Pité
Eric Pité, SVP of Product & Strategy, sat down with the Ravit Show at Databricks Data + AI Summit to have a conversation about the evolution of open source data science, the Posit and Databricks integration, and the place of AI in modern data science. Some highlights from the conversation are below:
– The evolution from RStudio to Posit It’s more than just a name change — it’s a signal of how seriously they’re embracing Python while staying true to their R roots and open-source mission.
– Open source meets enterprise Eric shared how Posit is navigating the balance between community contribution and commercial sustainability — and why that mission still matters in an AI-first world.
– Positron + Databricks Their strategic partnership is one to watch. Positron is making it easier to do high-quality data science (in R and Python) inside the Databricks ecosystem, with an emphasis on collaboration, reproducibility, and performance.
– AI’s place in modern data science Eric and Ravit chatted about how Posit sees the role of AI in helping data teams be more productive, without losing rigor or transparency.
– The power of storytelling with code One of our favorite parts is the emphasis on communication. Building models is not enough—data scientists need to share insights clearly, and Posit is building for that.
Learn more about the Databricks and Posit partnership by exploring the partnership page and resources: https://posit.co/use-cases/databricks/
Welcome to PydyTuesday! | How to Level Up your Python Skills
In this video, you’ll learn where to find the PydyTuesday github landing page, where data lives on the tidytuesday repo, and how to get started to try stuff out and build new things!
We hope you join us in participating in PydyTuesday!
Don’t forget to use the hashtags #TidyTuesday and #PydyTuesday wherever you like to hangout online - Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc. - have fun out there! We can’t wait to see the predictive models, visualizations, dashboards, and data apps that you create
Resources and Repos to star:
TidyTuesday GitHub Repo: https://github.com/rfordatascience/ti … Posit PydyTuesday GitHub Repo: https://github.com/posit-dev/python-t … TidyTuesday hashtag search on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/search?q=tidytuesday Other videos in this PydyTuesday playlist: • PydyTuesday | Python How-to Videos
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Let’s set up your Python environment with only 2 steps | PydyTuesday Python Projects
In this video, let’s get your project set up. Learn how to install Positron, create a new Python project, and set up a virtual environment.
We hope you join us in participating in PydyTuesday!
Don’t forget to use the hashtags #TidyTuesday and #PydyTuesday wherever you like to hangout online - Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc. - have fun out there! We can’t wait to see the predictive models, visualizations, dashboards, and data apps that you create
Resources and Repos to star:
TidyTuesday GitHub Repo: https://github.com/rfordatascience/ti … Posit PydyTuesday GitHub Repo: https://github.com/posit-dev/python-t … TidyTuesday hashtag search on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/search?q=tidytuesday Other videos in this PydyTuesday playlist: • PydyTuesday | Python How-to Videos
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Let’s install your first Python library in 2 minutes
Here is how to get set up to install your Python library in Positron. Learn how to use the terminal to install your first Python library, in this case pydytuesday. Also, learn the basics for managing packages using “pip.”
We hope you join us in participating in PydyTuesday!
Don’t forget to use the hashtags #TidyTuesday and #PydyTuesday wherever you like to hangout online - Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc. - have fun out there! We can’t wait to see the predictive models, visualizations, dashboards, and data apps that you create
Resources and Repos to star:
TidyTuesday GitHub Repo: https://github.com/rfordatascience/ti … Posit PydyTuesday GitHub Repo: https://github.com/posit-dev/python-t … TidyTuesday hashtag search on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/search?q=tidytuesday Other videos in this PydyTuesday playlist: • PydyTuesday | Python How-to Videos
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Let’s Import Free, High-Quality Datasets into your Python IDE (using Positron and PydyTuesday)
Let’s download data. Learn how to install a dataset using the pydytuesday package and do some basic visualization of the data using Positron’s data viewers.
We hope you join us in participating in PydyTuesday!
Don’t forget to use the hashtags #TidyTuesday and #PydyTuesday wherever you like to hangout online - Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, etc. - have fun out there! We can’t wait to see the predictive models, visualizations, dashboards, and data apps that you create
Resources and Repos to star:
TidyTuesday GitHub Repo: https://github.com/rfordatascience/ti … Posit PydyTuesday GitHub Repo: https://github.com/posit-dev/python-t … TidyTuesday hashtag search on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/search?q=tidytuesday Other videos in this PydyTuesday playlist: • PydyTuesday | Python How-to Videos
#pythoncontent
Great Tables 3: Data Color and Polishing
This workshop is all about using Great Tables to make beautiful tables for publication and display purposes. We believe that effective tables have these things in common:
structuring that aids in the reading of the table well-formatted values, fitting expectations for the field of study styling that reduces time to insight and improves aesthetics These materials are for you if:
• you have some experience with data analysis in Python • you often create reporting that involves summarizations of data • you were often frustrated with making tables for display purposes outside of Python • you found beautiful-looking tables in the wild and wondered: ‘How could I do that?’
Other videos in this series:
Great Tables 1: Structure, Format, and Style: https://youtu.be/QM7DbsY-nc4 Great Tables 2: Introducing Units Notation: https://youtu.be/SN0_vIL1Rhk
About us:
Michael Chow, Senior Software Engineer, Posit
Michael is a data scientist and software engineer. He has programmed in Python for well over a decade, and he obtained a PhD in cognitive psychology from Princeton University. His interests include statistical methods, skill acquisition, and human memory.
Richard Iannone, Senior Software Engineer, Posit
Richard is a software engineer and table enthusiast. He’s been vigorously working on making display tables easier to create/display in Python. And generally Rich enjoys creating open source packages so that people can great things in their own work.
Workshop repo: https://github.com/rich-iannone/great-tables-mini-workshop?tab=readme-ov-file Learn more at https://posit-dev.github.io/great-tables/articles/intro.html
Great Tables 2: Introducing Units Notation
This workshop is all about using Great Tables to make beautiful tables for publication and display purposes. We believe that effective tables have these things in common:
structuring that aids in the reading of the table well-formatted values, fitting expectations for the field of study styling that reduces time to insight and improves aesthetics These materials are for you if:
• you have some experience with data analysis in Python • you often create reporting that involves summarizations of data • you were often frustrated with making tables for display purposes outside of Python • you found beautiful-looking tables in the wild and wondered: ‘How could I do that?’
Other videos in this series:
Great Tables 1: Structure, Format, and Style: https://youtu.be/QM7DbsY-nc4 Great Tables 3: Data Color and Polishing https://youtu.be/Huteb5OmcrA
About us:
Michael Chow, Senior Software Engineer, Posit
Michael is a data scientist and software engineer. He has programmed in Python for well over a decade, and he obtained a PhD in cognitive psychology from Princeton University. His interests include statistical methods, skill acquisition, and human memory.
Richard Iannone, Senior Software Engineer, Posit
Richard is a software engineer and table enthusiast. He’s been vigorously working on making display tables easier to create/display in Python. And generally Rich enjoys creating open source packages so that people can great things in their own work.
Workshop repo: https://github.com/rich-iannone/great-tables-mini-workshop?tab=readme-ov-file Learn more at https://posit-dev.github.io/great-tables/articles/intro.html
Great Tables 1: Structure, Format, and Style
This workshop is all about using Great Tables to make beautiful tables for publication and display purposes. We believe that effective tables have these things in common:
structuring that aids in the reading of the table well-formatted values, fitting expectations for the field of study styling that reduces time to insight and improves aesthetics These materials are for you if:
• you have some experience with data analysis in Python • you often create reporting that involves summarizations of data • you were often frustrated with making tables for display purposes outside of Python • you found beautiful-looking tables in the wild and wondered: ‘How could I do that?’
Other videos in this series:
Great Tables 2: Introducing Units Notation: https://youtu.be/SN0_vIL1Rhk Great Tables 3: Data Color and Polishing https://youtu.be/Huteb5OmcrA
About us:
Michael Chow, Senior Software Engineer, Posit
Michael is a data scientist and software engineer. He has programmed in Python for well over a decade, and he obtained a PhD in cognitive psychology from Princeton University. His interests include statistical methods, skill acquisition, and human memory.
Richard Iannone, Senior Software Engineer, Posit
Richard is a software engineer and table enthusiast. He’s been vigorously working on making display tables easier to create/display in Python. And generally Rich enjoys creating open source packages so that people can great things in their own work.
Workshop repo: https://github.com/rich-iannone/great-tables-mini-workshop?tab=readme-ov-file Learn more at https://posit-dev.github.io/great-tables/articles/intro.html
Johnson & Johnson’s Open Source Journey with R in Clinical Trials
Learn how Johnson & Johnson embraces R and open-source tooling in clinical trials.
Abstract: Embracing open source has been a transformative journey for J&J, fueled by a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and innovation. Our R journey began with a mindset shift—transitioning from decades-old solutions to actively contributing to and harnessing the power of open-source communities. We navigated the challenges of cultural adaptation while cultivating a programmer-friendly environment that promotes sharing and continuous learning.
We enhanced our technical capabilities by open-sourcing key projects focused on R and strengthened our ecosystem and industry partnerships. This webinar reflects on our experiences, lessons learned, and the strategic impact of embracing R.
Speakers: Sumesh Kalappurakal, Tadeusz Lewandowski, Nicholas Masel, and Mark Bynens.
Learn more about Posit’s work in Pharma: https://posit.co/use-cases/pharma/
Build a Python table in under 1 minute using Great Tables
Create wonderful-looking tables directly from Pandas or Polars DataFrames with the Great Tables package.
Typically, Great Tables is used in a notebook environment or within a Quarto document and rendered in HTML or as an image file.
Ready to build some awesome tables? Install from PyPI with: $ pip install great_tables.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/posit-dev/great-tables Design Philosophy of Great Tables: https://posit-dev.github.io/great-tables/blog/design-philosophy/
Create Quarto dashboards with Python
Learn how to create Quarto dashboards with Python! Senior Product Marketing Manager Isabella Velásquez walks through building a Quarto dashboard from scratch, using water insecurity data from the TidyTuesday project. You’ll learn how to structure a Quarto document, preview dashboards, and customize layouts and themes. See Isabella’s code here: https://github.com/ivelasq/water-insecurity-dashboard And the dashboard here: https://ivelasq-water-insecurity-dashboard.share.connect.posit.cloud/
Resources:
Quarto dashboards guide: https://quarto.org/docs/dashboards/ Posit Connect Cloud: connect.posit.cloud Hello, Dashboards!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW7QbqI4fH0&t=590s TidyTuesday project: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday Posit PydyTuesday GitHub repo: https://github.com/posit-dev/python-tidytuesday Other videos in this PydyTuesday playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9HYL-VRX0oSDQjicFMLIIdcLv5NuvDp9
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Transform Boring Forms into Eye-Catching UI: Shiny Party Tricks That Will Make You Look Like a Pro 🎉
Learn how to elevate your Shiny forms from basic to professional with dynamic accordions. This tutorial demonstrates how to implement intelligent form organization and visual feedback using Shiny’s accordion components. We cover both basic accordion implementation and advanced dynamic features including status indicators, automatic title updates, and section validation. Perfect for developers looking to enhance their Shiny applications with modern, user-friendly form interfaces.
Key features covered:
Basic form to accordion conversion Dynamic panel updates Status indicator implementation Visual feedback systems Section validation techniques
Reference Documentation:
For accordion implementation, see: https://shiny.posit.co/r/reference/shiny/latest/accordion For dynamic updates, see: https://shiny.posit.co/r/reference/shiny/latest/updateAccordion For input validation, see: https://shiny.posit.co/r/reference/shiny/latest/validate For modular development, see: https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/build/modules/
Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:23 - Basic form structure overview 0:50 - Introduction to accordion components 1:11 - Basic accordion implementation 1:35 - Dynamic accordion enhancement 2:00 - Status indicators and visual feedback 2:29 - Updating accordion panels 2:55 - Documentation resources 3:18 - Conclusion
Stop Your Shiny Apps from Breaking on Mobile! Master Responsive Design in Minutes 📱💻
A comprehensive guide to implementing responsive design in Shiny applications using UI layout columns. This tutorial covers how to create adaptive layouts that automatically adjust based on screen size, from desktop to mobile devices. Learn how to leverage Shiny’s bootstrap-based grid system to create professional, responsive applications that look great on any device.
Key concepts covered:
• Default Shiny responsive behavior • UI layout column implementation • Screen size breakpoints • Bootstrap grid system • Responsive card layouts • Mobile-first design principles
Reference Documentation:
UI Layout Columns: https://shiny.posit.co/r/reference/shiny/latest/layout_column Layout Guide: https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/build/layout-guide/ Bootstrap Integration: https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/build/bootstrap/ Responsive Design: https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/build/responsive/
Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 0:23 - Default Shiny layout behavior 0:38 - Understanding screen responsiveness 1:05 - Introduction to UI layout columns 1:38 - Screen size breakpoints explained 2:02 - Desktop layout demonstration 2:30 - Mobile layout adaptation 2:44 - Bootstrap grid system overview 3:21 - Documentation resources 3:45 - Conclusion
Generate 100s of custom reports in minutes with Python & Quarto! (Parameterized report automation)
A practical guide to generating hundreds of customized reports using Quarto and Python. Learn how to leverage Quarto’s parameter system to create PDFs and HTML reports at scale. Using a movie dataset example, we’ll cover:
- How to automate report generation with Python and Quarto
- Create dynamic templates with data visualization and formatting
- Adapt parameters to work with both Python and R code
- Build scalable reporting workflows for any dataset This tutorial demonstrates how to transform what could be hours of manual reporting work into an efficient automated process.
Quarto Crash Course Video: https://youtu.be/_VKxTPWDhA4?si=Q09V5xXlyo1YVQqs Generating Analytics Reports (typst) Video: https://youtu.be/Q3phTByW138?si=FIMiAWAHP6HhUnhG
Link to Code (starting): https://github.com/KeithGalli/quarto-crash-course Link to Code (finished): https://github.com/KeithGalli/quarto-crash-course/tree/parameterized-reports
Information on the dataset can be found here: https://github.com/KeithGalli/quarto-crash-course/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file#resources
Video timeline! 0:00 - Video Overview 0:58 - Walking through some starter code (linked in description) 3:20 - Passing parameters with Python into Quarto Markdown Files 4:27 - Passing parameters using R 5:18 - Using a Python script to render many reports with variable parameters. 6:36 - Dynamically generating markdown sections with Python (output: asis - execution option) 11:56 - Adding images, table of contents, & pagebreaks to our reports 15:00 - Adding graphs to our reports 17:54 - Tying everything together 21:47 - Adding fenced divs & styling/formatting dynamically with code
Quarto Websites 4: Add lists of content with listings | Charlotte Wickham | Posit
Adding a listing page to your website is a great way to showcase your projects, talks, publications or blog posts. In this video you’ll learn how to create a listing page in Quarto and see two ways to populate it with content: Quarto documents, or a yaml file.
In this video: 0:50 Use a listing to add a blog 3:36 Listing options 5:47 Why use a listing? 7:22 Use a YAML file to populate a project portfolio 9:50 Customize the display of a listing 12:10 Advanced customization of listings 13:42 Remove pages
Links: Listings: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-listings.html Andrew Heiss’ teaching listing: https://www.andrewheiss.com/teaching/
Code: Starter source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.3 Final source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.4
For more in-depth coverage and slides check out: https://posit-conf-2024.github.io/quarto-websites/
Do you need a professional website to showcase your work? If you’ve used Quarto to produce a document, you’ve already got the technical skills to create a Quarto website. In this video series, you’ll learn everything else you need to build a website and customize its appearance.
This video series is for you if you:
- Have used Quarto to generate documents (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS Word etc.)
- Are comfortable editing plain text documents (e.g .qmd) in your IDE (e.g. RStudio, Visual Studio Code etc.)
- Want to walk away with your own personal website
Taught by: Charlotte Wickham (https://www.cwick.co.nz/ ) Emil Hvitfeldt (https://emilhvitfeldt.com/ )
Videos in this series:
- Build your homepage [https://youtu.be/l7r24gTEkEY]
- Add pages and navigation [https://youtu.be/k65E-8PXZmA] 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS [https://youtu.be/pAN2Hiq0XGs] 4: Add lists of content with listings [https://youtu.be/bv_Cw-3HI1Y]
Quarto Websites 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS | Emil Hvitfeldt | Posit
You now have a set of content you are happy with on your website, but how do you customize the look and feel of your site beyond options set in YAML? In this video, you’ll start by learning the basics of CSS and SCSS and how to make good design choices. Then, you’ll see how to apply these choices to your Quarto website.
In this video: 0:14 What is HTML? 3:23 CSS Selectors 8:05 CSS Attributes 8:25 Layout attributes 10:24 Reducing repetition with SASS/SCSS? 15:26 Consistent design 16:36 Choosing colors 17:50 Choosing fonts 19:28 Maintaining accessibility 22:13 Apply SCSS to your website 24:16 Change the appearance of headings 25:28 Change the appearance of navigation bar 30:30 Use google fonts
Links: Color contrast checker: https://colourcontrast.cc/ Google fonts: https://fonts.google.com/
Code: Starter source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.2 Final source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.3
For more in-depth coverage and slides check out: https://posit-conf-2024.github.io/quarto-websites/
Do you need a professional website to showcase your work? If you’ve used Quarto to produce a document, you’ve already got the technical skills to create a Quarto website. In this video series, you’ll learn everything else you need to build a website and customize its appearance.
This video series is for you if you:
- Have used Quarto to generate documents (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS Word etc.)
- Are comfortable editing plain text documents (e.g .qmd) in your IDE (e.g. RStudio, Visual Studio Code etc.)
- Want to walk away with your own personal website
Taught by: Charlotte Wickham (https://www.cwick.co.nz/ ) Emil Hvitfeldt (https://emilhvitfeldt.com/ )
Videos in this series:
- Build your homepage [https://youtu.be/l7r24gTEkEY]
- Add pages and navigation [https://youtu.be/k65E-8PXZmA] 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS [https://youtu.be/pAN2Hiq0XGs] 4: Add lists of content with listings [https://youtu.be/bv_Cw-3HI1Y]
Quarto Websites 2: Add pages and navigation | Charlotte Wickham | Posit
Now you’ve got a homepage, you’ll likely want to add some other pages. In this video, learn how to add pages to your website, and help people find them, by adding them to your website navigation.
In this video: 1:00 Add a page to your website 2:54 Your file structure determines your URL structure 5:49 Add a link to your page in navigation 7:50 Customize navigation item text and icon 9:12 Control where items appear in the navigation bar 10:16 Navigation bar options 11:11 Switch to side navigation 12:22 Other types of navigation 16:30 Wrap Up
Links: List of icons you can use in navigation items: https://icons.getbootstrap.com/ Top navigation bar options: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html#top-navigation Quarto website navigation: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html
Code: Starter source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.1 Final source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.2
For more in-depth coverage and slides check out: https://posit-conf-2024.github.io/quarto-websites/
Do you need a professional website to showcase your work? If you’ve used Quarto to produce a document, you’ve already got the technical skills to create a Quarto website. In this video series, you’ll learn everything else you need to build a website and customize its appearance.
This video series is for you if you:
- Have used Quarto to generate documents (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS Word etc.)
- Are comfortable editing plain text documents (e.g .qmd) in your IDE (e.g. RStudio, Visual Studio Code etc.)
- Want to walk away with your own personal website
Taught by: Charlotte Wickham (https://www.cwick.co.nz/ ) Emil Hvitfeldt (https://emilhvitfeldt.com/ )
Videos in this series:
- Build your homepage [https://youtu.be/l7r24gTEkEY]
- Add pages and navigation [https://youtu.be/k65E-8PXZmA] 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS [https://youtu.be/pAN2Hiq0XGs] 4: Add lists of content with listings [https://youtu.be/bv_Cw-3HI1Y]
Quarto Websites 1: Build your homepage | Charlotte Wickham & Emil Hvitfeldt | Posit
In this video, you’ll get a running start by using a template we’ve designed to be functional and attractive, and that will serve as a foundation for the rest of the video series. You’ll customize the content of your homepage, and how it looks, and along the way learn about the two key files in a Quarto website index.qmd and _quarto.yml. Finally, you’ll learn one way to publish your website so other people can see it.
In this video: 0:21 Use a template to get started 2:33 Preview the template homepage, index.qmd 4:12 Customize the content of your homepage 5:45 “About” pages 7:22 Customize the image on your homepage 9:24 Website configuration, _quarto.yml 10:40 Customize colors with YAML 13:45 Customize fonts with YAML 17:00 Publish your site
Links: About pages: https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-about.html Appearance options you can set in YAML: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-themes.html#basic-options
Code: Starter source code: https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/website-template Final source code: https://github.com/cwickham/quarto-website-video/tree/v0.1
For more in-depth coverage and slides check out: https://posit-conf-2024.github.io/quarto-websites/
Do you need a professional website to showcase your work? If you’ve used Quarto to produce a document, you’ve already got the technical skills to create a Quarto website. In this video series, you’ll learn everything else you need to build a website and customize its appearance.
This video series is for you if you:
- Have used Quarto to generate documents (e.g. HTML, PDF, MS Word etc.)
- Are comfortable editing plain text documents (e.g .qmd) in your IDE (e.g. RStudio, Visual Studio Code etc.)
- Want to walk away with your own personal website
Taught by: Charlotte Wickham (https://www.cwick.co.nz/ ) Emil Hvitfeldt (https://emilhvitfeldt.com/ )
Videos in this series:
- Build your homepage [https://youtu.be/l7r24gTEkEY]
- Add pages and navigation [https://youtu.be/k65E-8PXZmA] 3: Customize appearance with CSS/SCSS [https://youtu.be/pAN2Hiq0XGs] 4: Add lists of content with listings [https://youtu.be/bv_Cw-3HI1Y]
Quarto Crash Course | Create Professional Reports, Dashboards & Websites w/ Markdown & Python Code!
Welcome to this comprehensive Quarto crash course using Python! Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced user, this tutorial covers the topics you need to know about the Quarto publishing system.
We’ll explore:
- Basic setup and installation
- Creating HTML reports, PDFs, and interactive dashboards from your Python script or Jupyter notebook.
- Building presentations with Revealjs
- Customizing outputs with CSS and layouts (fenced divs, classes, and more)
- Working with parameters for dynamic reports
- Publishing to Posit Connect Cloud
- Creating complete websites
- Automated report generation
Perfect for data scientists, analysts, and developers looking to create beautiful, reproducible reports from their code. We’ll use Python throughout the tutorial with real-world examples using movie analytics data. Let’s dive in!
Video by @KeithGalli
Github repo: https://github.com/KeithGalli/quarto-crash-course
Deploy with Posit Connect Cloud! https://pos.it/keith_qc
#python #quarto #posit
— Resources Mentioned — Slideshow example: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/demo/#/title-slide Slideshow example (source code): https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-web/blob/main/docs/presentations/revealjs/demo/index.qmd Example HTML report: https://019302a7-e9e3-3454-3575-23148999a7f7.share.connect.posit.cloud/ Quarto Gallery: https://quarto.org/docs/gallery/ Bootstrap Icons: https://icons.getbootstrap.com/
Video timeline! 0:00 - About the Crash Course 0:50 - Quarto Overview 2:12 - Installation & Setup 6:22 - Markdown Basics 8:46 - Quarto Markdown Features 19:37 - Quarto Styling & Formatting (fenced divs, CSS classes, etc.) 34:53 - Parameters & CLI Options 40:46 - HTML & Publishing 49:46 - Static Docs (PDFs, Docx) 54:53 - Dashboards 1:06:50 - Slideshows (Revealjs) 1:16:11 - Websites 1:19:52 - Automated Report Generation (Parameterized Reports)
Quarto Dashboards 3: Theming and Styling | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit
Theming and styling Quarto dashboards built with R and/or Python.
Before watching this video, you might want to watch Parts 1 & 2.
This video takes you through
0:00 - Theming (including Bootswatch themes, light/dark mode, customizing themes with SCSS) 3:55 - Styling 4:55 - Live coding demo
Slides can be found at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards/3-theming-styling and the starter documents for the accompanying exercises at https://github.com/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/olympicdash .
Materials for all parts of the videos can be accessed at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards .
You already analyze and summarize your data in computational notebooks with R and/or Python. What’s next? You can share your insights or allow others to make their own conclusions in eye-catching dashboards and straight-forward to author, design, and deploy Quarto Dashboards, regardless of the language of your data processing, visualization, analysis, etc. With Quarto Dashboards, you can create elegant and production-ready dashboards using a variety of components, including static graphics (ggplot2, Matplotlib, Seaborn, etc.), interactive widgets (Plotly, Leaflet, Jupyter Widgets, htmlwidgets, etc.), tabular data, value boxes, text annotations, and more. Additionally, with intelligent resizing of components, your Quarto Dashboards look great on devices of all sizes. And importantly, you can author Quarto Dashboards without leaving the comfort of your “home” – in plain text markdown with any text editor (VS Code, RStudio, Neovim, etc.) or any notebook editor (JupyterLab, etc.).
This workshop will walk you through building an increasingly complex dashboard using various layout options and deploy them as static web pages (with no special server required) as well as with a Shiny Server on the backend for enhanced interactivity.
This course is for you if you:
- do data analysis in computational notebooks
- share your results with your audience in static or interactive dashboards
- want to improve the design, user interface, and experience of your dashboards
Quarto Dashboards 2: Components | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit
Building dashboards in R and/or Python with Quarto, one component at a time.
Before watching this video, you might want to watch Part 1.
This video takes you through
0:00 - An overview of dashboard components 0:11 - Navigation bar and pages 4:55 - Sidebars, rows, columns, and tabsets 11:07 - Cards 22:40 - Live coding demo
Slides can be found at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards/2-dashboard-components and the starter documents for the accompanying exercises at https://github.com/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/olympicdash .
Materials for all parts of the videos can be accessed at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards
Quarto Dashboards 1: Hello, Dashboards! | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Posit
You already analyze and summarize your data in computational notebooks with R and/or Python. What’s next? You can share your insights or allow others to make their own conclusions in eye-catching dashboards and straight-forward to author, design, and deploy Quarto Dashboards, regardless of the language of your data processing, visualization, analysis, etc. With Quarto Dashboards, you can create elegant and production-ready dashboards using a variety of components, including static graphics (ggplot2, Matplotlib, Seaborn, etc.), interactive widgets (Plotly, Leaflet, Jupyter Widgets, htmlwidgets, etc.), tabular data, value boxes, text annotations, and more. Additionally, with intelligent resizing of components, your Quarto Dashboards look great on devices of all sizes. And importantly, you can author Quarto Dashboards without leaving the comfort of your “home” – in plain text markdown with any text editor (VS Code, RStudio, Neovim, etc.) or any notebook editor (JupyterLab, etc.).
This video takes you through
0:00 - Overview of building dashboards with Quarto 0:15 - Dashboard basics 7:40 - First dashboard in R 10:30 - First dashboard in Python 11:43 - Live coding demo
Slides can be found at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards/1-hello-dashboards/#/title-slide and the starter documents for the accompanying exercises at https://github.com/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/olympicdash .
Materials for all parts of the videos can be accessed at https://mine.quarto.pub/quarto-dashboards
Build Shiny apps with AI ✨
View the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJNKdwdVQ8Q
Try it out here, free: https://gallery.shinyapps.io/assistant/
Get started with Shiny for R and Python: https://shiny.posit.co
#pythoncontent #positshorts
Shiny Assistant: Prototype and build Shiny applications with the help of AI | Winston Chang | Posit
Have you ever had an idea for a great web application with Shiny but felt something holding you back from getting started? Maybe it’s that you don’t know where to start, or that you don’t know which packages use to build the app, or maybe it’s just that you can’t muster the energy to get started. Sometimes you just need a little help to get unstuck.
We’re excited to announce a new addition to the Shiny ecosystem that can help: Shiny Assistant.
Try it out here, free: https://gallery.shinyapps.io/assistant/
Get started with Shiny for R and Python: https://shiny.posit.co
Deploy an LLM-powered Shiny for Python app to Connect Cloud in minutes!
Connect Cloud lets you quickly deploy data applications and documents from public GitHub repositories for Python and R projects.
This short demo showcases secret variable management on Connect Cloud to help deploy an LLM-powered Shiny for Python application.
→ Signup for a free Connect Cloud account → https://connect.posit.cloud/ → View the how-to guide → https://docs.posit.co/connect-cloud/how-to/python/llm-shiny-python.html
Using controllers to write robust Shiny for Python app tests | Karan Gathani | Posit
With the Shiny for Python v1.0 release, controllers were exposed to provide a structured and consistent way for users to interact with and test UI components in Shiny applications. They offer an abstraction layer that encapsulates the complexity of interacting with specific UI elements, making it easier for developers to write robust tests and automate interactions with their Shiny apps.
Reference documentation - https://shiny.posit.co/py/api/testing/ https://shiny.posit.co/py/docs/playwright-testing.html
Creating tests for Shiny for Python apps | Karan Gathani | Posit
With the Shiny for Python v1.0 release, Shiny provides a simple way to create a test file for your Shiny app. The shiny add test command is a helpful CLI tool for Shiny app developers. It simplifies the process of creating test files for their applications.
When you run this command, it prompts you to input two pieces of information: the path to your Shiny app file and the desired location for the new test file.
Once you provide these details, the command automatically generates a test file at the specified location. This new file includes a pre-made test template, giving you a solid starting point for writing your app’s tests.
Reference documentation - https://shiny.posit.co/py/docs/unit-testing.html https://shiny.posit.co/py/docs/playwright-testing.html
GenAI and Pharma: Learning as we go | Episode 1: Copilot
In this episode, Phil and Cole discuss using Copilot in clinical trial submissions.
Due to an industry-wide shift in pharma, statistical programmers are transitioning to open-source tooling in drug development. This skills gap that occurs when moving to open source is one area that can be aided with generative AI tools. In this episode, Cole and Phil show some of the features and functionality of a popular tool in the data science space, Copilot.
More about open source in Pharma: https://posit.co/solutions/pharma/
Parallelize R code using user-defined functions in sparklyr
If you’re an Apache Spark user, you benefit from its speed and scalability for big data processing.
However, you might still want to leverage R’s extensive ecosystem of packages and intuitive syntax. One effective way to do this is by writing user-defined functions (UDFs) with sparklyr.
UDFs enable you to execute R functions within Spark, harnessing Spark’s processing power and combining the strengths of both tools.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:
- Open Posit Workbench as a Databricks user
- Start a Databricks cluster within Posit Workbench
- Connect to a cluster within Posit Workbench
- View Databricks data in RStudio
- Create a prediction function
- Create a user-defined function with sparklyr
Read our most recent blog that covers parallelizing R code using user-defined functions (UDFs) in sparklyr: https://posit.co/blog/databricks-udfs/
Learn more about our Databricks partnership: https://posit.co/solutions/databricks/
Watch other tutorials on using Databricks and RStudio: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9HYL-VRX0oR-3AgWbXtlfdr29626EjRJ&feature=shared
Reproducible data science with webR and Shinylive | George Stagg | Posit
A fundamental principle of the scientific method is peer review and independent verification of results. Good science depends on transparency and reproducibility. However, in a recent study a substantial 74% of research code failed to run without errors, often caused by diverse computing environments. This talk will discuss the principles of numerical reproducibility in research and show how software can be pinned to specific versions and self-contained as a universal binary package using WebAssembly. This ensures seamless reproducibility on any machine equipped with a modern web browser and, using tools such as Shinylive, could provide a new way for researchers to share results with the community.
webR demo website: https://webr.r-wasm.org/v0.3.2/
Shinylive examples: https://shinylive.io/r/ https://shinylive.io/py/
Documentation: https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/v0.3.2/ https://github.com/posit-dev/shinylive https://github.com/quarto-ext/shinylive
Quarto: Elevating R Markdown for Advanced Publishing | Christophe Dervieux
In the dynamic landscape of data analysis and scientific publishing, R Markdown has been pivotal for the R community, allowing users to seamlessly blend code, narrative and results in a cohesive narrative. Now, Quarto emerges as a powerful tool that builds on years of experience but also goes beyond R Markdown, providing more flexibility and power in scientific communication.
This talk aims to present Quarto as the new alternative for scientific publishing. We will delve into how Quarto enhances the user experience for R enthusiasts, maintaining the syntax familiarity of R Markdown while introducing innovative and improved functionalities across multiple formats, similar to R Markdown ones.
Why switch to Quarto from R Markdown? In which cases? How does Quarto integrate with existing workflows? Hopefully everyone will feel inspired to try out Quarto!
https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/
Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:41 Quarto is an open-source, scientific and technical publishing system 1:22 Computational documents and scientific markdown made easy for single source publishing 3:08 How to use Quarto 4:24 Quarto works with VS Code, Positron, Jupyter, & RStudio 5:22 Quarto’s multi-language workflow 7:21 Quarto syntax 8:40 Quarto formats (html, pdf, docx, typst, beamer, pptx, revealjs, etc.) 12:19 HTML Theming 14:10 Typst CSS for nice table output in PDF 16:24 Publishing (Quarto Pub, GitHub Pages, Posit Connect, Posit Cloud, Netlify, Confluence, Hugging Face, etc.) 17:36 Shortcodes 19:10 Quarto Extensions 19:49 Quarto Projects 22:53 Project configuration examples for a website and a book 23:42 Resources to get started!
Great Tables: Make beautiful, publication quality tables in Python | Rich Iannone & Michael Chow
Tables are undeniably useful for data work. We have many great DataFrame libraries available in Python, and they give us flexibility in terms of manipulating data at will, but what happens when presenting tables to others?
It’s nice to display tables. Tables can efficiently carry information, just like plots do, and at times it is the better way of presenting data. Indeed, it is time to bridge the divide between raw DataFrame output and wondrously structured tables suitable for publication.
Now, let us turn our attention to the state of ‘display tables’ in 2024. Let us go over what comprises key components for building effective information displays in tables. It may surprise one how new a well-crafted table can be hewn. We’ll take a look at the combinations of Python packages that fit together to make this important task possible, and marvel together at the tabular results they can provide!
Learn more at https://posit-dev.github.io/great-tables/
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro: Meet Rich and Michael 0:41 What we mean by “publication ready tables” 1:29 Overview of what we’ll talk about in this video 1:44 Table Goals: Ways to make a table beautiful 4:41 Tables made from reproducible code! 5:11 The history of table generation to influence our API 6:15 Our modern take on a table display framework 6:35 The problem with Excel 7:38 Introducing Great Tables! 8:00 Key Ingredients of making a Great Table 8:24 Structure: Title, column spanners and nice column labels 8:52 Format: Compact dollar values and percentages 9:23 Styling: Fill color and bold text 10:09 Imports and Polars Selectors 11:08 Coding the structure 12:27 Coding the format 13:07 Coding the styling 15:03 Putting images and plots in your table cells 15:49 Advanced Design 16:07 .fmt_nanoplot(): Small plots within table cells 19:08 .data_color(): Heat maps in tales 20:51 Powerful and plentiful methods to format cell values 22:48 To sum up: TABLES RULE
How to Perfect Your Python Dashboard with Advanced Styling! (HTML/CSS - Shiny for Python)
This is part 5 of our multi-part series on creating professional dashboards with Shiny for Python. In this video, we dive into advanced styling techniques to enhance the visual appeal and professionalism of your Shiny dashboards. We’ll cover:
- Adding a logo and custom title
- Making use of custom HTML elements
- Using CSS to style Shiny components
- Customizing Altair charts for a polished look
- Advanced Plotly chart modifications
- Applying a consistent color theme and layout
By the end of this video, you’ll have a styled dashboard, ready for a professional presentation.
Access the GitHub repo with all parts of this project: https://github.com/KeithGalli/shiny-python-projects Shiny for Python Homepage: https://shiny.posit.co/py/ Check out the complete documentation here: https://shiny.posit.co/py/api/express/
Video by @KeithGalli
Video Timeline: 0:00 - Video Overview & Setup 1:50 - Modifying HTML and CSS in Shiny 7:44 - Adding a Logo Image 10:26 - Styling Labels and Containers (Aligning our Image w/ the Title — Custom Divs) 20:20 - Customizing Altair Charts (Gridlines, Font, Axis Labels, Etc.) 27:49 - Customizing Plotly Visualizations 37:16 - Customizing Seaborn & Folium Heatmaps 44:15 - Final Touches, Clean Up, Recap and Next Steps
If you enjoyed this series, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel to stay updated!
All videos in the series: Part 1 - How to Build, Deploy, & Share a Python Application in 20 minutes! (Using Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2W7i7QyJPI&t=0s Part 2 - How to make Interactive Python Dashboards! (Reactivity in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkA-Z8HTAE&t=0s Part 3 - How to make your Python Dashboard look Professional! (Layouts in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jemk7DoN4qk&t=0s Part 4 - How to combine Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, & more in a single Python Dashboard! (Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/xDgO5hB4-VU?si=kk20yhdpsBqkMYcC Part 5 - How to Perfect Your Python Dashboard with Advanced Styling! (HTML/CSS - Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/uYZUS-eFbqw
How to combine Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, & more in a single Python Dashboard! (Shiny for Python)
This is part 4 of our multi-part series on creating professional dashboards with Shiny for Python. In this video, we’ll explore how to integrate popular Python visualization libraries like Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, and Altair into your Shiny apps. This allows you to leverage your existing visualization skills and seamlessly include them in interactive dashboards. We’ll cover:
- Integrating Matplotlib and Seaborn for detailed visualizations
- Utilizing Altair and Plotly for dynamic charts
- Implementing Folium for interactive maps
- Customizing data tables with additional filters and selection modes
By the end of this video, you’ll have a rich and diverse set of visualizations in your Shiny dashboard, setting the stage for the final styling touches in the next video.
Shiny for Python Homepage: https://shiny.posit.co/py/
Access the GitHub repo with all parts of this project: https://github.com/KeithGalli/shiny-python-projects
Check out the complete documentation here: https://shiny.posit.co/py/api/express/
Video by @KeithGalli
Video Timeline! 0:00 - Video Overview & Recap of Previous Video Dashboards 1:38 - Getting Setup with the Code (cloning branch from GitHub) 3:15 - Adding Matplotlib-based visualizations (render.plot Shiny for Python decorator) 10:15 - Create a Seaborn Heatmap Chart (Sales Volume by Hour of the Day) 14:59 - Creating Interactive Charts with Jupyter Widgets (Plotly, Altair, Bokeh, Pydeck, & More…) | render_widget decorator 20:14 - Implementing Folium for Location-Based Heatmaps (render.ui decorator) 25:32 - Enhancing DataFrames with Filters and Selection Modes (render.data_frame, render.DataGrid, render.DataTable, etc.) 28:49 - Additional Rendering Options, Final Touches and Next Steps
Stay tuned for part 5, where we’ll focus on styling and finalizing our dashboard. If you enjoyed this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel to stay updated!
All videos in the series: Part 1 - How to Build, Deploy, & Share a Python Application in 20 minutes! (Using Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2W7i7QyJPI&t=0s Part 2 - How to make Interactive Python Dashboards! (Reactivity in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkA-Z8HTAE&t=0s Part 3 - How to make your Python Dashboard look Professional! (Layouts in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jemk7DoN4qk&t=0s Part 4 - How to combine Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, & more in a single Python Dashboard! (Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/xDgO5hB4-VU?si=kk20yhdpsBqkMYcC Part 5 - How to Perfect Your Python Dashboard with Advanced Styling! (HTML/CSS - Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/uYZUS-eFbqw
How to make your Python Dashboard look Professional! (Layouts in Shiny)
This is part 3 of our multi-part series on creating professional dashboards with Shiny for Python. In this video, we focus on enhancing the visual appeal and structure of your Shiny dashboards using various layout components. We’ll cover:
- Implementing layout templates for quick setup
- Using cards and sidebars for a clean, organized look
- Customizing columns and grids for better data presentation
- Adding tab options for multiple views within a dashboard
By the end of this video, you’ll have a more polished and professional-looking dashboard, setting the stage for advanced visualizations in upcoming videos.
Shiny for Python Homepage: https://shiny.posit.co/py/
Access the GitHub repo with all parts of this project: https://github.com/KeithGalli/shiny-python-projects
Check out the complete documentation here: https://shiny.posit.co/py/api/express/
Video by @KeithGalli
Video Timeline! 0:00 - Video Overview & Progress Thus Far 1:28 - Using Shiny Templates to Get Started Fast 3:21 - Using Layout Components to Customize our Apps (Cards, Sidebars, Tabs, etc.) 7:55 - Adding a Sidebar within a Card 12:38 - Adding a Card with Tabs to Display Various Visualizations 17:35 - Structuring Data in Columns / Grids (layout_columns() & layout_column_wrap()) 26:30 - Final Touches & Tips (Filling in Visualizations into our Tab Views)
Stay tuned for part 4, where we’ll add more advanced visualizations, and part 5, where we’ll focus on customizing styles and adding final touches. If you enjoyed this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel to stay updated!
All videos in the series: Part 1 - How to Build, Deploy, & Share a Python Application in 20 minutes! (Using Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2W7i7QyJPI&t=0s Part 2 - How to make Interactive Python Dashboards! (Reactivity in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkA-Z8HTAE&t=0s Part 3 - How to make your Python Dashboard look Professional! (Layouts in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jemk7DoN4qk&t=0s Part 4 - How to combine Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, & more in a single Python Dashboard! (Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/xDgO5hB4-VU?si=kk20yhdpsBqkMYcC Part 5 - How to Perfect Your Python Dashboard with Advanced Styling! (HTML/CSS - Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/uYZUS-eFbqw
How to make Interactive Python Dashboards! (Reactivity in Shiny)
This is a quick-start guide to Shiny for Python, part 2 of a multi-part series.
Data scientists need to quickly build web applications to create and share interactive visualizations, giving others a way to interact with data and analytics. Shiny helps you do this.
In this video, we’ll build off of the last tutorial where we learned the basics of building, sharing, and deploying a Shiny app in Python. This video specifically focuses on reactivity in Shiny. You can watch this video as a standalone, but it may be helpful to watch the previous video (https://youtu.be/I2W7i7QyJPI) .
We’ll cover: ⬡ Creating toggle options for dynamic visualizations ⬡ Understanding Shiny’s reactivity model ⬡ Implementing various input selectors ⬡ Building reactive components and visualizations ⬡ Using reactive calculations and effects ⬡ Adding and formatting plots with Plotly ⬡ Documentation walkthrough to learn more about reactivity (reactivity.effect, reactivity.event, reactivity.isolate, reactivity.invalidate_later, etc…)
Video Resources: Video #1: https://youtu.be/I2W7i7QyJPI?si=nx1dk5ovPc91pvlB Starter Code (from end of video #1): https://github.com/KeithGalli/shiny-python-projects/tree/video1 Final App: https://keithgalli.shinyapps.io/final-app/
Shiny Resources: Shiny for Python Homepage: https://shiny.posit.co/py/ Component Gallery: https://shiny.posit.co/py/components/ Express Documentation: https://shiny.posit.co/py/api/express/ Gordon Shotwell’s “How does Shiny Render Things?”: https://youtu.be/jvV4y2xogf8?si=8uGP8ZfboUj1QM4p Joe Cheng’s “Shiny Programming Practices”: https://youtu.be/B2JzHv4FOTU?si=t4Atii-RSc5ojgom
Stay tuned for part 3, where we’ll explore how to make your dashboard look more professional (layouts in Shiny).
Video by @KeithGalli
Video Timeline! 0:00 - Intro & Overview 1:01 - Getting Started with Code 2:08 - Adding Shiny Components (Inputs, Outputs, & Display Messages) 3:21 - Creating an Additional Visualization (Sales Over Time by City) 7:55 - What are Reactive.Calcs and How Do We Use Them Properly? (DataFrame Best Practices) 10:27 - Creating an Additional Visualization (Sales Over Time by City) — Continued 14:30 - Filtering City Data with Select Inputs (UI.Input_Selectize) 21:15 - Rendering Shiny Inputs Within Text 22:15 - Quick Formatting Adjustments 22:54 - Understanding the Shiny Reactivity Model (How Does Shiny Render Things?) 24:23 - Adding a Checkbox Input to Change Out Bar Chart Marker Colors 28:00 - Deploying Our Updated App! 29:19 - Advanced Concepts in Shiny Reactivity (Reactive.Effect, Reactive.Event, Reactive.Isolate, Reactive.Invalidate_Later) & Other Resources
All videos in the series: Part 1 - How to Build, Deploy, & Share a Python Application in 20 minutes! (Using Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2W7i7QyJPI&t=0s Part 2 - How to make Interactive Python Dashboards! (Reactivity in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkA-Z8HTAE&t=0s Part 3 - How to make your Python Dashboard look Professional! (Layouts in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jemk7DoN4qk&t=0s Part 4 - How to combine Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, & more in a single Python Dashboard! (Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/xDgO5hB4-VU?si=kk20yhdpsBqkMYcC Part 5 - How to Perfect Your Python Dashboard with Advanced Styling! (HTML/CSS - Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/uYZUS-eFbqw
Being SO good they can’t ignore you
Tom recommended the book So Good They Can’t Ignore You in a recent Data Science Hangout. Libby also keeps this awesome list of Hangout book recommendations: https://datahumans.notion.site/2f4552fd18be4d439b6b6977077e6ca5?v=738d0654fd81490890b8f741a2ef0a3c #positshorts
Communicating Data Science with Shiny! 🚀 Garrick Aden-Buie #datascience #datavisualization #shiny
Ever seen this diagram? It’s from R for Data Science, outlining the journey of tackling new data problems.
1️⃣ Start: Import and tidy your data. 2️⃣ Cycle: Transform, visualize, and model your data. 3️⃣ Communicate: Share your findings.
But communication isn’t just the end—it’s an ongoing process! Shiny apps are your secret weapon for this.
Scenario 1: Quick Shiny app for colleague feedback ️ refine your work. Scenario 2: Small app grows into a full-featured web application.
From small, quick-use apps to robust final products, Shiny evolves with your project needs. Discover why Shiny is essential for every data scientist!
Get Started: https://shiny.posit.co #positshorts
{shinylive}: Serverless Shiny Apps | Barret Schloerke | Posit
In the rapidly evolving landscape of web technologies, the integration of R (and Python) with modern web frameworks has become increasingly important for data scientists and developers. This presentation introduces {shinylive}, a new R package that exports Shiny applications to be run within statically hosted websites. We will explore the capabilities of {shinylive} through its use of the innovative R package {webR}, which allows for the execution of R code in the browser (via WebAssembly and service workers) without the need for a centralized server.
The presentation will cover the technical foundation of {shinylive}, including its architecture and the integration process with Quarto documents. We will also discuss the practical aspects and drawbacks of exporting Shiny apps with {shinylive}, highlighting the ease of exporting apps to a folder for local use or hosting them on GitHub pages.
{shinylive} bridges the gap between Shiny and static websites, making it a valuable resource for interactive data analysis and presentation.
Link to app: https://schloerke.com/presentation-2024-04-18-appsilon-shinylive/ Link to script: https://github.com/posit-dev/r-shinylive/blob/main/examples/deploy-app.yaml Link to use_github_action(): https://github.com/posit-dev/r-shinylive#github-pages Shinylive website: https://posit-dev.github.io/r-shinylive/ {webr} docs: https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/
Analyze and explore data stored in Snowflake using R
James Blair, Senior Product Manager, Cloud Integrations at Posit, will demonstrate using the R language to analyze and explore data stored in Snowflake. He will also show you how easy it is to set up an R environment inside Posit Workbench that runs as a native app on Snowpark Container Services.
You also find out how using the dbplyr interface can be used to push computation data into Snowflake, giving you access to greater memory and compute power than in a standard R session.
It’s easy to get started. In just a few minutes, you can work in your R session securely inside Snowflake using the RStudio Pro IDE in Posit Workbench. Posit also supports VS Code and Jupyter for data scientists who prefer to work in other languages like Python, so you can continue to use the tools you know and love.
Learn more about the Snowflake and Posit integration: https://posit.co/solutions/snowflake/
How to Build, Deploy, & Share a Python Application in 20 minutes! (Using Shiny)
This is a quick-start guide to Shiny for Python. It’s part 1 of a multi-part series. Data scientists need to quickly build web applications to create and share interactive visualizations, giving others a way to interact with data and analytics. Shiny helps you do this.
In this video, we’ll walk you through the basics of setting up Shiny for Python, creating your first app, and deploying it so others can use it. We’ll cover:
- Installing Shiny and necessary dependencies
- Writing and running your first Shiny app
- Basic UI and server structure
- Deploying your app online
- Helpful Links
Shiny for Python Homepage: https://shiny.posit.co/py/
The link to the final app can be found here: https://keithgalli.shinyapps.io/final-app/
Follow along with the code examples provided in this repository: https://github.com/KeithGalli/shiny-python-projects
Check out the complete documentation here: https://shiny.posit.co/py/api/express/
Stay tuned for part 2, where we’ll dive deeper into advanced features and customization options.
Video Timeline! 0:00 - Intro to Shiny & Video Overview 1:43 - Getting Started with the Shinylive Playground 2:44 - Building a custom visualization with Shinylive 5:18 - Easily sharing the code/application for a Shinylive app 6:12 - Building a Shiny Express App locally (VSCode) 9:40 - How to run app if you’re not using VSCode 10:17 - Further customization of our app (adding title, using CSV data, dynamic input) 17:15 - Deploying our Shiny app to the web 21:20 - Conclusion & what’s coming next in the series
Video by @KeithGalli
All videos in the series: Part 1 - How to Build, Deploy, & Share a Python Application in 20 minutes! (Using Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2W7i7QyJPI&t=0s Part 2 - How to make Interactive Python Dashboards! (Reactivity in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkA-Z8HTAE&t=0s Part 3 - How to make your Python Dashboard look Professional! (Layouts in Shiny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jemk7DoN4qk&t=0s Part 4 - How to combine Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, & more in a single Python Dashboard! (Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/xDgO5hB4-VU?si=kk20yhdpsBqkMYcC Part 5 - How to Perfect Your Python Dashboard with Advanced Styling! (HTML/CSS - Shiny for Python): https://youtu.be/uYZUS-eFbqw
Joe Cheng | Managing long-running operations in Shiny | Posit
It’s been years since Shiny evolved to allow asynchronous operations within applications, improving scalability. The introduction of the {promises} package enabled concurrent processing between multiple Shiny sessions, a significant step forward in handling background tasks. However, this did not address the need for intra-session concurrency, where users expect to interact with the application while long-running calculations are executed in the background.
Recently, we added a new ExtendedTask feature to Shiny to allow for such intra-session concurrency. This new feature provides a different approach for developers to incorporate asynchronous tasks, enabling smoother user interactions during intensive computations. Alongside ExtendedTask, this talk will also discuss newer methods for launching asynchronous tasks, besides the usual {future} package. The focus will be on the practical application and integration of these features into Shiny applications.
Links mentioned in the video: ⬡ Shiny in Production: Principles, practices, and tools, https://youtu.be/Wy3TY0gOmJw?feature=shared
Timestamps: 0:20 Make your slow code fast 1:43 Long-running operations are a problem 3:28 Inter-session concurrency and intra-session concurrency 4:24 Introducing ExtendedTask 5:17 Demo of a slow API using ExtendedTask 6:13 Slow code example (R) 7:16 Fix slow code with ExtendedTask (R) 8:55 Slow code example (Python) 7:16 Fix slow code with ExtendedTask (Python) 10:46 Links to get started 11:06 ExtendedTask backstory intro 11:28 ExtendedTask vs. Shiny Async 15:50 How reactive programming works in Shiny 21:31 How ExtendedTask works in the reactive process 25:38 What we’re still working on 26:35 {future} alternatives 31:47 Wrapping up
Future of Shiny to the FDA with WebR ✨
For more on How Pharma is Pioneering WebAssembly with webR & Shiny for FDA Clinical Trial Submissions: https://posit.co/blog/webr-fda-pilot/ #positshorts
Using your dataset in Shiny Templates | Carson Sievert | Posit
Watch the Shiny team’s Carson Sievert change the dataset in a Shiny Template.
Find the right template for you at https://shiny.posit.co/py/templates/
0:00 Intro with Carson Sievert
0:19 How to load the template code
1:14 Running your Shiny app in VS Code with a live reloading preview
1:29 How this template works
2:23 See the contents of your data in a data_frame
2:53 How this template imports data
3:33 A more optimized way to import a large amount of data
5:10 Changing the dataset
5:44 Troubleshooting the inevitable errors when changing the dataset
Introducing Shiny for Python Templates | Carson Sievert | Posit
Last month we introduced the Shiny for Python Components and Layouts galleries, which are a simple, visual overview of what Shiny can do, mixed with cheatsheet-like information. They are for new and seasoned users alike.
We’re excited to announce a third section which brings those two things together into opinionated boilerplate code: Shiny Templates. This is just a start… We expect this gallery to grow as time goes on.
These will allow you to hit the ground running, whether you need a quick simple app or a quick complicated one .
Get started at https://shiny.posit.co/py/templates/
0:00 Introduction to Shiny for Python Templates 0:38 How to work with a template locally in VS Code 2:24 Preview your app with the Shiny for Python VS Code Extension 2:45 A data_frame is a quick and easy way to see the contents of your data 4:39 See everything in your window with the “fillable=True” page_opts 5:16 Modifying inputs 7:40 Fix the logic in your @render.plot to show your modified inputs 9:00 Add a component to the sidebar 9:05 How to add input_dark_mode to your app 9:54 How to make your plot change to dark mode as well
Deploying Databricks-backed content on Posit Connect
After you connect to Databricks using sparklyr and create your content, you’ll want to deploy and share your work. With the new pysparklyr::deploy_databricks() function, you can deploy your content to Posit Connect. Run the function and confirm to start deployment. The deploy_databricks() function will gather your document location, credentials, and URLs. It uses this information to deploy to Posit Connect. After it’s done, click the URL to see the deployed content on Posit Connect. Open the content from the publisher view. Click around and check out your work. In Posit Connect, you can edit sharing permissions, create a vanity URL, and more. Open the content URL to see how your work would look to stakeholders.
Learn more:
- Databricks x Posit: https://posit.co/solutions/databricks/
- Empowering R and Python Developers: Databricks and Posit Announce New Integrations: https://posit.co/blog/databricks-and-posit-announce-new-integrations/
- Posit Connect: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/connect/
- sparklyr and Databricks Connect v2: https://spark.posit.co/deployment/databricks-connect.html
- Deploying to Posit Connect: https://spark.posit.co/deployment/databricks-posit-connect.html
Contact our sales team to schedule a demo: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=Databricks
Databricks Pro Driver in Posit Workbench
We’ve added a Databricks driver to our Professional Drivers. The RStudio Connections Pane allows users to connect to their Databricks clusters from the IDE. Select the Databricks driver from the list of available drivers. Select the Driver to establish the connection. The driver can be used with the new databricks() function from the odbc package to connect to Databricks clusters and SQL warehouses.
Learn more:
- Databricks x Posit: https://posit.co/solutions/databricks/
- Empowering R and Python Developers: Databricks and Posit Announce New Integrations: https://posit.co/blog/databricks-and-posit-announce-new-integrations/
- RStudio IDE and Posit Workbench 2023.12.0: What’s New: https://posit.co/blog/rstudio-2023-12-0-whats-new/
- Posit Professional Drivers 2024.03.0: Support for Apple Silicon: https://posit.co/blog/pro-drivers-2024-03-0/
Contact our sales team to schedule a demo: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=Databricks
Databricks Pane in Posit Workbench
We’ve introduced a Databricks Pane in RStudio Pro for discovering and managing Databricks clusters. Users can stay in RStudio Pro without navigating to the Databricks web interface to see their clusters. Click on the ‘Connect to’ icon to open up a new Databricks Connection pop-up. This forms the initial connection to Databricks. Once you click ‘ok’, you will be connected to Databricks.
Learn more:
- Databricks x Posit: https://posit.co/solutions/databricks/
- Empowering R and Python Developers: Databricks and Posit Announce New Integrations: https://posit.co/blog/databricks-and-posit-announce-new-integrations/
- RStudio IDE and Posit Workbench 2023.12.0: What’s New: https://posit.co/blog/rstudio-2023-12-0-whats-new/
- Posit Professional Drivers 2024.03.0: Support for Apple Silicon: https://posit.co/blog/pro-drivers-2024-03-0/
Contact our sales team to schedule a demo: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=Databricks
Databricks Authentication in Posit Workbench
Posit Workbench now has delegated Databricks credentials.
Users can log into a Databricks Workspace when starting an RStudio or VS Code session. Authentication relies on OAuth-backed refresh tokens rather than Personal Access Tokens (PATs). This allows for more granular control over permissions, built-in expiration, and defined scopes. Once logged in, you can interact directly with your Databricks clusters in that Workspace in your preferred environment.
Learn more:
- Databricks x Posit: https://posit.co/solutions/databricks/
- Empowering R and Python Developers: Databricks and Posit Announce New Integrations: https://posit.co/blog/databricks-and-posit-announce-new-integrations/
- RStudio IDE and Posit Workbench 2023.12.0: What’s New: https://posit.co/blog/rstudio-2023-12-0-whats-new/
- Posit Professional Drivers 2024.03.0: Support for Apple Silicon: https://posit.co/blog/pro-drivers-2024-03-0/
Contact our sales team to schedule a demo: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=Databricks
Connecting RStudio and Databricks with sparklyr
You can connect RStudio and Databricks with the sparklyr package.
First, load the necessary packages. Next, set up the connection with sparklyr::spark_connect(). See your data in the Connections pane. Check which databases you’re connected to. Navigate the data structure by expanding the levels. Navigate to the table you want to explore…and analyze your data in RStudio.
Learn more:
- Databricks x Posit: https://posit.co/solutions/databricks/
- Empowering R and Python Developers: Databricks and Posit Announce New Integrations: https://posit.co/blog/databricks-and-posit-announce-new-integrations/
- Posit Connect: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/connect/
- sparklyr and Databricks Connect v2: https://spark.posit.co/deployment/databricks-connect.html
- Deploying to Posit Connect: https://spark.posit.co/deployment/databricks-posit-connect.html
Contact our sales team to schedule a demo: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=Databricks
Connecting RStudio and Databricks with ODBC
The odbc package, in conjunction with a driver, provides DBI support and an ODBC connection.
With the new odbc::databricks_connect function, you can create an ODBC connection to determine and configure the necessary settings to access your Databricks account. Your Databricks HTTP path is the only argument you need to run databricks_connect(). Provide your HTTP path and you will be able to see your Databricks data in the RStudio Connections Pane. Then, you can analyze your data in RStudio.
Learn more:
- Databricks x Posit: https://posit.co/solutions/databricks/
- Empowering R and Python Developers: Databricks and Posit Announce New Integrations: https://posit.co/blog/databricks-and-posit-announce-new-integrations/
- RStudio IDE and Posit Workbench 2023.12.0: What’s New: https://posit.co/blog/rstudio-2023-12-0-whats-new/
- Posit Professional Drivers 2024.03.0: Support for Apple Silicon: https://posit.co/blog/pro-drivers-2024-03-0/
Contact our sales team to schedule a demo: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=Databricks
GitHub Copilot on Posit Cloud
Speed up your coding projects in the RStudio IDE on Posit Cloud with GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant.
Learn more in our blog post: https://posit.co/blog/github-copilot-on-posit-cloud/
Posit Cloud: https://posit.cloud/ GitHub Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot RStudio User Guide: https://docs.posit.co/ide/user/ide/guide/tools/copilot.html
Quarto Dashboards | Charles Teague | Posit
Quarto has a host of exciting new features in release v1.4, with one of the most anticipated being Quarto Dashboards. In a recent internal presentation, Posit’s Charles Teague demonstrated the new capabilities and we wanted to share it with community.
Please note that you can use this feature today, but to access it you need to be running on a Quarto prerelease build dated November 6, 2023, or later. We also encourage users to review our pre-release documentation which offers additional information and examples of the dashboard functionality.
Quarto Pre-release builds: https://quarto.org/docs/download/prerelease.html Quarto Dashboard Documentation: https://quarto.org/docs/dashboards/
webR 0.2: Updates to webR’s developer API | George Stagg | Posit
More from George Stagg on what’s new in the webR 0.2 release series, this time on webR’s developer API. If you’re a JavaScript or TypeScript developer, give webR a try and see what you might use it for!
WebR makes it possible to run R code in the browser without the need for an R server to execute the code: the R interpreter runs directly on the user’s machine.
It is possible to work entirely within webR and the R graphics devices, but you might also want to integrate webR into external JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks, including visualization packages. Learn about how to do this and more with webR’s developer API, including plotting data from webR using Observable JS, recent performance improvements, better error handling, worker event messages, and neatly terminating a webR session.
00:15 Performance improvements working with JavaScript 02:50 Example: Plotting data from webR using Observable JS 04:35 Type predicate functions and type conversion 07:30 Handling errors with webRError 09:15 Event messages from webr::canvas() 10:25 Safely handling webR termination 12:30 Links to documentation and resources
Website and developer documentation: https://docs.r-wasm.org/ Examples of using webR with Observable JS:
- Loading webR and R data manipulation: https://observablehq.com/d/6936259b898a25ce
- Bitmap plotting and custom fonts: https://observablehq.com/d/32e2b7e465c0b994
webR 0.2: R Packages and Shiny for WebAssembly | George Stagg | Posit
WebR makes it possible to run R code in the browser without the need for an R server to execute the code: the R interpreter runs directly on the user’s machine. But just running R isn’t enough, you need the R packages you use every day too.
webR 0.2.0 makes many new packages available (10,324 packages - about 51% of CRAN!) and it’s now possible to run Shiny apps under webR, entirely client side.
George Stagg shares how to load packages with webR, know what ones are available, and get started running Shiny apps in the web browser. There’s a demo webR Shiny app too!
00:15 Loading R packages with webR 01:50 Wasm system libraries available for use with webR 05:30 Tidyverse, tidymodels, geospatial data, and database packages available 08:00 Shiny and httpuv: running Shiny apps under webR 11:05 Example Shiny app running in the web browser 12:05 Links with where to learn more
Shiny webR demo app: https://shinylive.io/r/examples/
Website: https://docs.r-wasm.org/ webR REPL example: https://webr.r-wasm.org/latest/
Demo webR Shiny app in this video: https://shiny-standalone-webr-demo.netlify.app/ Source: https://github.com/georgestagg/shiny-standalone-webr-demo/
See the overview of what’s new in webR 0.2.0: https://youtu.be/Mpq9a6yMl_w
webR 0.2 Overview: R in the browser | George Stagg | Posit
WebR is a version of the statistical language R compiled for the browser and Node.js using WebAssembly, via Emscripten.
WebR makes it possible to run R code in the browser without the need for an R server to execute the code: the R interpreter runs directly on the user’s machine. Several R packages have also been ported for use with webR, and can be loaded in the usual way using the library() function.
George Stagg shares what’s new in the 0.2.0 release!
00:23 About WebR and applications of computing with WebAssembly 02:25 Overview of changes in webR 0.2.0 release 04:10 The webR REPL app 07:28 Improved speed in graphics rendering 08:43 Text rendering in plots, including international and accessible fonts 10:27 Updated support for standard bitmap devices 13:05 Lazy virtual file system allows for decreased download size 15:40 Links with where to learn more
Website: https://docs.r-wasm.org/ webR REPL example: https://webr.r-wasm.org/latest/
Bite-sized tricks for machine learning with tidymodels | Posit
The tidymodels framework is a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning using tidyverse principles. This video highlights a number of tidymodels features that could improve your modeling workflows.
0:03 Switching modeling engines is easy 0:21 Never lose your tuning results 0:36 Built-in visualizations for modeling objects 1:03 Grouped resampling 1:16 Case weights 1:32 Select variables based on role and type 2:00 Spatial resampling 2:16 Keep your tidymodels objects small
Learn more at https://www.tidymodels.org/
How does Shiny render things? | Gordon Shotwell
Discussion on the Shiny Python Discord channel from Gordon Shotwell. Gordon talks about how Shiny renders things with reactive programming, how other frameworks work, and how Shiny scales for complex applications.
0:00 - How Shiny renders things - reactivity 2:31 - How do other frameworks work 3:51 - Event driven programming, what’s a better way? 6:53 - Runtime tracing 8:25 - Declarative programming 9:20 - Drawing a graph 12:05 - How reactivity scales 13:30 - Reactive calculus 18:45 - Question and answer
Shiny for Python: https://shiny.posit.co/py/ Shiny for Python Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/yMGCamUMnS
Teaching the tidyverse in 2023 | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Recommendations for teaching the tidyverse in 2023, summarizing package updates most relevant for teaching data science with the tidyverse, particularly to new learners.
00:00 Introduction 00:46 Using addins to switch between RStudio themes (See https://github.com/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/addmins for more info) 01:40 Native pipe 03:08 Nine core packages in tidyverse 2.0.0 07:15 Conflict resolution in the tidyverse 11:30 Improved and expanded *_join() functionality 22:05 Per operation grouping 27:41 Quality of life improvements to case_when() and if_else() 31:41 New syntax for separating columns 34:51 New argument for line geoms: linewidth 36:08 Wrap up
See more in the Teaching the tidyverse in 2023 blog post https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/08/teach-tidyverse-23
What does superseded mean? Package development lifecycle process and the meaning of superseded.
An important part of the process of package lifecycle and package development is not just adding new functions. It’s is equally important to remove functions.
Hadley Wickham shares about the package lifecycle process and what ‘supersede’ means for functions.
See the full video about the purrr 1.0 release: https://youtu.be/EGAs7zuRutY
More about the package lifecycle stages: https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html
Maintaining the house that tidyverse built: https://youtu.be/izFssYRsLZs
What does deprecated mean? Package lifecycle and the process of deprecation.
An important part of the process of package lifecycle and package development is not just adding new functions. It’s equally important to remove functions.
Hadley Wickham shares about the package lifecycle process and what ‘deprecation’ means for functions.
See the full video about the purrr 1.0 release: https://youtu.be/EGAs7zuRutY
More about the package lifecycle stages: https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html
Maintaining the house that tidyverse built: https://youtu.be/izFssYRsLZs
Posit Cloud Essentials | Ep 1: Getting Started
On the last Tuesday of every month, we host an event – Posit Cloud Essentials – where we explore the ins and outs of Posit Cloud, diving into its key features, valuable tips, and real-world use cases. The event is open to all and hosted on YouTube with a live Q&A during each month’s event.
This month, Alex Chisholm, Product Manager for Posit Cloud, walks through how to get started with a free Posit Cloud account. Enabling you to conduct analysis, generate insights, and share findings from your web browser.
What is Posit Cloud? Posit Cloud makes it easy to move your entire workflow into a unified online experience, complete with project management and publishing capabilities. Use your favorite coding languages and environments and share your work seamlessly with others, all from the comfort of your own web browser.
No registration is required to join the events. Simply add the event to your calendar using the link below.
Create a free Posit Cloud account → https://posit.cloud/
Explore the source code used in this demo → https://posit.cloud/spaces/394911/join?access_code=v-iZm0epL-n-vNHpht4JAfH47gmqWdg0cM6hyll7
Add future Posit Cloud Essential events to your calendar → http://evt.to/adahaeuow
Q&A from this demo can be found here → https://app.sli.do/event/q2aLBPfVRAvUCFryNs9YuL
What Exactly Is Digital Transformation? | Posit + PING
Doug Linsmeyer, VP of Digital Technology at PING, clarifies how he thinks about digital transformation, adopting new technologies, and how Posit Connect helps data scientists at PING continue to innovate.
Read and watch the full story here: https://posit.co/about/customer-stories/ping/
Learn more about Posit Connect: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/connect/
Python support in Posit Connect
Posit Connect: Deploy everything you create in R & Python, including interactive applications (Shiny, Streamlit, Dash), documents, notebooks, and dashboards.
Learn more at https://posit.co/products/enterprise/connect/
Live Q&A Session - Ep 3. Scheduling a Quarto Doc (with custom branding) on Posit Connect
Live Q&A Session for the End-to-End Workflow Demo on June 28th *Please note this was the live Q&A portion of the event.
You can view the demo recording here: https://youtu.be/V82BBU9ldcM
Ep 3. Scheduling a Quarto Doc (with custom branding) on Posit Connect | End-to-end workflows
Follow-up links:
- Demo recording: https://youtu.be/V82BBU9ldcM
- Posit Team: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/team/
- Talk to us directly: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=RST_YT_Demo
- Follow-along blog post: To be added
- Source code for example: To be added
- Posit Team demo resources: pos.it/demo-resources
RStudio + Amazon SageMaker | Build Beyond Your Laptop
Did you know that you can use RStudio, the best IDE for R and Python users, with Amazon Sagemaker?
RStudio on Amazon SageMaker makes it easy for R users to quickly and easily get started coding in RStudio on AWS from their browser, no server setup required, by using a new integration with Posit Workbench.
In this webinar, Posit team members will show you how to get started with RStudio on Amazon SageMaker to analyze your organization’s data in S3 and train ML models.
As a fully managed offering on Amazon SageMaker, this release makes it easy for DevOps teams and IT Admins to administer, secure, and scale their organization’s centralized data science infrastructure with familiar AWS tools and frameworks.
Learn more at: https://posit.co/products/cloud/sagemaker/ Talk to us about using RStudio and SageMaker: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=Sagemaker
Python made easier with Posit
Tom Mock, Workbench Product Manager at Posit, discusses our commitment to Python from open-source projects to enterprise support.
Specifically, Tom discusses Posit Team, the all-in-one solution for your data science team to build, share and maintain your R & Python data products.
Posit Team comprises our three professional products, Posit Workbench, Connect, and Package Manager.
Posit Workbench give your data scientists access to their favorite development tools in a centralized environment. Enabling them to work in the language they prefer, all while sharing IT resources and collaborating to find actionable insights.
Posit Connect is where your team can securely host all of their data products and share them with the push of a button. Schedule reports to update automatically and give users access to only the insights they need.
Posit Package Manager allows your team to deliver reproducible data science without the burden of manual package management. Organize and centralize R and Python packages across your team, department, or organization.
Posit Team: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/team/ Posit Workbench: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/workbench/ Posit Connect: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/connect/ Posit Package Manager: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/package-manager/
Posit Connect | Provide Authenticated Access to Your Data Products
Posit Connect is all about getting your data products into the hands of stakeholders and collaborators.
Here, we demonstrate how to provide authenticated access to a Dash application.
For more information about Posit Connect, go to: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/connect/
Get started with Quarto | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
This video walks you through creating documents, presentations, and websites and publishing with Quarto. The video features authoring Quarto documents with executable R code chunks using the RStudio Visual Editor (https://quarto.org/docs/visual-editor/) .
00:00 Introduction 00:34 Authoring a document with Quarto 01:13 Using the RStudio visual editor 04:13 Code chunks and chunk options 06:31 Inserting cross references to figures and tables (https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/cross-references.html ) 08:56 Adding a citation from a DOI (https://quarto.org/docs/visual-editor/technical.html#citations ) 10:10 Seamlessly switching between output formats 10:58 Creating Quarto presentations (https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/ ) 14:36 Customizing the output location of code in presentations (https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/#output-location ) 16:09 Creating a website from scratch (https://quarto.org/docs/websites/ ) 19:19 Creating multi-format documents (https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-multi-format.html ) 20:22 Publishing the website to QuartoPub (https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/quarto-pub.html )
Why Shiny for Python? - Posit PBC
Learn how Shiny for Python’s design philosophy sets it apart from Streamlit, Dash, and traditional web development frameworks.
With Shiny for Python out of alpha as of April, many have wondered how it stacks up against other popular alternatives. In this video, Gordon Shotwell – developer advocate on the Shiny team at Posit – explores the design philosophy behind Shiny for Python and how it compares to other frameworks for developing data science web applications. If you are a data scientist working mostly in Python, we hope this motivates you to take a serious look at Shiny for Python.
Learn more on Posit blog, https://posit.co/blog/why-shiny-for-python/
00:00 What is Shiny for Python? 03:05 What is Reactivity? 04:19 How does Shiny compare to Streamlit? 05:14 What are the main differences between Streamlit and Shiny for Python? 07:05 Why should I prefer Shiny over Streamlit? 09:09 How does Shiny compare to Dash? 10:22 What is the difference between a stateless and a stateful application? 12:19 Why consider Shiny for Python over Dash? 13:37 Shiny for Python’s Design Philosophy
posit::conf(2023) Workshop:Enhancing Communication & Collaboration with Quarto and Jupyter Notebooks
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Hamel Husain Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This workshop is for you if you: • have some experience with Python and Jupyter and want to learn how Quarto can support and enhance your workflows • want to learn about turning your notebooks to websites and publications • want to learn how to write python packages with Jupyter notebooks and Quarto with the help of nbdev
The workshop will assume some prior experience with Python and Jupyter Notebooks.
Sharing knowledge through writing is a critical aspect of scientific activity, including data science. It allows researchers to communicate their findings and insights to a wider audience, build upon existing work, and collaborate with others in their field. However, until recently, there have been limited options for publishing long-form writing and expository analyses authored in Jupyter Notebooks, a popular medium for data scientists.
Enter Quarto - an innovative, open-source scientific and technical publishing system compatible with Jupyter Notebooks and other popular mediums. Quarto provides data scientists with a seamless way to publish their work in a high-quality format that is easily accessible and shareable. With Quarto, researchers can turn their Jupyter Notebooks into professional-looking publications in a variety of formats, including web pages, books, and slides.
In this workshop, we will demonstrate how Quarto enables data scientists to turn their work products into professional, high-quality publications, websites, blog posts, and other shareable artifacts. As a bonus, we will also discuss how you can create and document Python packages using Jupyter notebooks and Quarto with the help of nbdev.
The learning outcomes for the workshop include: • examine case studies where sharing scientific knowledge has greatly improved the efficacy of data science teams • author documents in plain text markdown or Jupyter notebooks with equations, citations, crossrefs, figure panels, callouts, and advanced layouts • learn how to author content in IPython/Jupyter and the Quarto VS Code extension • leverage Quarto for creating different types of publications, including personal blogs, knowledge management for teams, notes, books, websites, and presentation slides • extend Quarto with notebook filters and extensions • host websites and publications on platforms like GitHub Pages, QuartoPub, and Netlify • test notebooks and documentation with Quarto’s execution options • create and document Python packages with nbdev and Quarto
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: What They Forgot to Teach You About R
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Shannon Pileggi and David Aja Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you answer yes to these questions: • Have you been using R for a while and feel there might be better ways to organize your R life, but don’t know what they are? • Do you want to put programming on pause and learn about actionable programming-adjacent workflows for streamlining analysis in R? • Are you willing to feel a bit of (git) pain to leverage the benefits of version control for collaboration and time travel?
This 1-day What They Forgot (WTF) To Teach You About R workshop is for experienced R and RStudio users who want to (re)design their R lifestyle via project-oriented workflows and version control for data science (Git/GitHub). At the conclusion of the workshop, you will have strategies for organizing data science projects and workflows, employing robust file paths, constructing human and machine-readable file names, and facilitating collaboration with yourself or others via version control
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Web Design for Shiny Developers
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Maya Gans and David Granjon
This course is for you if: • you are an R developer with basic Shiny knowledge • you want to quickly test new business ideas • you want to increase the reach of your apps and websites
Website design and development is one of the most critical factors contributing to whether the user has a good or poor experience while browsing your site, directly influencing the overall impression of your brand. Besides, bad design decisions can significantly impact app performances. By exposing you to common governing rules of design, this course will walk you through the entire design process, from ideation to execution. These rules will help you to become a better collaborator to design teams, and enable you to create beautiful front-end experiences for Shiny
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Tidy time series and forecasting in R
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Rob J Hyndman Workshop Duration: 2-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • already use the tidyverse packages in R such as dplyr, tidyr, tibble and ggplot2 • need to analyze large collections of related time series • would like to learn how to use some tidy tools for time series analysis including visualization, decomposition and forecasting
It is common for organizations to collect huge amounts of data over time, and existing time series analysis tools are not always suitable to handle the scale, frequency and structure of the data collected. In this workshop, we will look at some packages and methods that have been developed to handle the analysis of large collections of time series.
On day 1, we will look at the tsibble data structure for flexibly managing collections of related time series. We will look at how to do data wrangling, data visualizations and exploratory data analysis. We will explore feature-based methods to explore time series data in high dimensions. A similar feature-based approach can be used to identify anomalous time series within a collection of time series, or to cluster or classify time series. Primary packages for day 1 will be tsibble, lubridate and feasts (along with the tidyverse of course).
Day 2 will be about forecasting. We will look at some classical time series models and how they are automated in the fable package, and we will explore the creation of ensemble forecasts and hybrid forecasts. Best practices for evaluating forecast accuracy will also be covered. Finally, we will look at forecast reconciliation, allowing millions of time series to be forecast in a relatively short time while accounting for constraints on how the series are related
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Teaching Data Science Masterclass
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • you want to learn / discuss curriculum, pedagogy, and computing infrastructure design for teaching data science with R and RStudio using the tidyverse and Quarto • you are interested in setting up your class in Posit Cloud • you want to integrate version control with git into your teaching and learn about tools and best practices for running your course on GitHub
This masterclass is aimed primarily at participants teaching data science in an academic setting in semester-long courses, however much of the information and tooling we introduce is applicable for shorter teaching experiences like workshops and bootcamps as well. Basic knowledge of R is assumed and familiarity with the tidyverse and Git is preferred.
There has been significant innovation in introductory statistics and data science courses to equip students with the statistical, computing, and communication skills needed for modern data analysis. Success in data science and statistics is dependent on the development of both analytical and computational skills, and the demand for educators who are proficient at teaching both these skills is growing. The goal of this masterclass is to equip educators with concrete information on content, workflows, and infrastructure for painlessly introducing modern computation with R and RStudio within a data science curriculum. In a nutshell, the day you’ll spend in this workshop will save you endless hours of solo work designing and setting up your course.
Topics will cover teaching the tidyverse in 2023, highlighting updates to R for Data Science (2nd ed) and Data Science in a Box as well as present tooling options and workflows for reproducible authoring, computing infrastructure, version control, and collaboration.
The workshop will be comprised of four modules: • Teaching data science with the tidyverse and Quarto • Teaching data science with Git and GitHub • Organizing, publishing, and sharing of course materials • Computing infrastructure for teaching data science
Throughout each module we’ll shift between the student perspective and the instructor perspective. The activities and demos will be hands-on; attendees will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas and ask questions throughout the session.
In addition to gaining technical knowledge, participants will engage in discussion around the decisions that go into developing a data science curriculum and choosing workflows and infrastructure that best support the curriculum and allow for scalability. We will also discuss best practices for configuring and deploying classroom infrastructures to support these tools
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Steal like an Rtist: Creative Coding in R
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Ijeamaka Anyene Fumagalli & Sharla Gelfand Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This workshop is for you if you: • are comfortable with R and RStudio, experience with tidyverse and ggplot2 • are interested in applying data visualization skills more creatively, but may not know where to start or how to develop style/inspiration • are an artist interested in exploring code as another medium for creating their work
R is a tool for data analysis but also can be used for self-expression. This workshop will be an introduction to creative coding in R in order to make visual art. We will take an inspiration-first approach, using compelling pieces to discuss and learn the techniques that shape the work. This workshop takes guidance from its namesake, the book “Steal Like An Artist” by Austin Kleon - once we have identified and learned to recreate existing works, we will cover how to take this inspiration and transform, remix, or reinterpret it in the pursuit of developing our own work and artistic styles.
This workshop is hands-on and will cover color theory and manipulation, a reintroduction of the data frame as the foundation for creating art (instead of just for analyzing data!), using ggplot2 as an artistic canvas, creating basic and specialized shapes, tiling and pattern making, developing your own functions and using iteration. We will also discuss how to use controlled randomness to convert a standalone piece into a generative art system that can produce many distinct outputs. Creative coding may seem a world apart from data analysis, but we see a large overlap and intersection of the skills used in both, not to mention the creative muscles that are already used in data visualization
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Shiny in Production: Tools and Techniques
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Eric Nantz and Mike Thomas Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • had a Shiny application work just fine on your machine, but encounters critical issues after deployment • are eager to prospectively apply techniques before deployment to plan for the unexpected • want to know the benefits and trade-offs between various ways of hosting Shiny applications
Shiny brings tremendous possibilities to share innovative data science workflows with others inside an intuitive web interface. Many in the Shiny community have shared effective development techniques for building a robust application. Even with the best intentions during application development, a myriad of issues can arise once it leaves the confines of your machine. In this one-day workshop, you will implement core techniques to account for common scenarios that arise once your application is used in production, such as accounting for thousands of simultaneous users, how effective profiling can address performance bottlenecks, and ensuring your application is doing as little as possible to ensure a smooth and responsive experience.
This course assumes intermediate knowledge of building Shiny applications in R and prior experience deploying an application to a platform such as the shinyapps.io service or products like Posit Connect
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Shiny Dashboards
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Colin Rundel Workshop Duration: 1 Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • have some experience with Shiny and want to improve your skills, • are interested in building dashboards for reporting, and • want to learn about styling and theming your dashboard.
In this workshop we will explore all of the interesting and variety of ways you can use Shiny: from adding dynamic elements to your existing RMarkdown / Quarto documents to building and deploying dashboards for reporting, and customizing the appearance and themeing of the app (and your outplots like plots and tables). This workshop assumes that you have a basic familiarity with Shiny (e.g. the ability to write simple apps and basics of reactivity)
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Machine Learning and Deep Learning with Python
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Sebastian Raschka Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
In this workshop, you will learn the machine and deep learning fundamentals using a modern open-source stack. We’ll start with a brief introduction to Python’s scientific computing libraries, including NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib, which provide the foundation for data analysis and visualization. From there, we will dive into the scikit-learn API, a user-friendly, open-source library for machine learning in Python. You will learn how to use it to create machine learning classifiers and apply tree-based models like random forests, gradient boosting, and XGBoost.
In the second part of this workshop, we will also cover deep learning concepts and introduce PyTorch, the most widely used deep learning research library. You will also learn about training multi-layer neural networks efficiently using multi-GPU and mixed-precision techniques. Finally, we will explore how to use a pretrained large language transformer with scikit-learn and fine-tune it on a custom downstream task using PyTorch.
By the end of this workshop, you will have a good understanding of the fundamental principles of machine learning and be able to construct advanced classification pipelines for tabular data using scikit-learn. Additionally, you will gain experience in image classification and natural language processing techniques using PyTorch and be able to implement them in your own predictive modeling projects effectively
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: It’s Not Just Code: Managing an Open Source Project
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Tracy Teal Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This workshop is for you if you: • are involved in maintaining an open source project and struggling to feel like it’s sustainable, or are looking for practice or guidance • are starting out or interested in being involved in maintaining an open source project, and want to learn how to set up the project for the most effective engagement from contributors and users • are interested in learning more about the people side of open source project maintenance and connecting with other maintainers
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Introduction to tidymodels
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Hannah Frick, Simon Couch, Emil Hvitfeldt Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This workshop is for you if you: • have intermediate R knowledge, experience with tidyverse packages, and either of the R pipes • can read data into R, transform and reshape data, and make a wide variety of graphs • have had some exposure to basic statistical concepts such as linear models, random forests, etc.
Intermediate or expert familiarity with modeling or machine learning is not required.
This workshop will teach you core tidymodels packages and their uses: data splitting/resampling with rsample, model fitting with parsnip, measuring model performance with yardstick, and basic pre-processing with recipes. Time permitting, you’ll be introduced to model optimization using the tune package. You’ll learn tidymodels syntax as well as the process of predictive modeling for tabular data
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Introduction to Quarto with R + RStudio
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Andrew Bray Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • have a basic knowledge of how to use the RStudio IDE • have some familiarity with markdown, or • are excited to author flexible single documents like technical reports and slide presentations
Seasoned users of R Markdown will get more out of the Advanced Quarto with R and RStudio: Projects, Websites, Books, and More workshop, which is focused on projects, a distinct strength of Quarto in authoring work that spans multiple documents.
This workshop will prepare you to author a rich array of documents in Quarto, the next generation of R Markdown. Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that offers multilingual programming language support to create dynamic and static documents, books, presentations, blogs, and other online resources.
The focus for this workshop will be on single documents. You will learn to create static documents, to add interactivity to them with Shiny and htmlwidgets, or steer them in the direction of sophisticated scientific documents. In the afternoon you’ll take the same authoring approaches to create slide presentations in various formats such as reveal.js, beamer, and pptx
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Introduction to Data Science with R and Tidyverse
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Posit Academy Instructors Workshop Duration: 2-Day Workshop
This course is ideal for: • those new to R or the Tidyverse • anyone who has dabbled in R, but now wants a rigorous foundation in up-to-date data science best practices • SAS and Excel users looking to switch their workflows to R
This is not a standard workshop, but a six-week online apprenticeship that culminates in two in-person days at posit::conf(2023). Begins August 7th, 2023. No knowledge of R required. Visit posit.co/academy to learn more about this uniquely effective learning format.
Here, you will learn the foundations of R and the Tidyverse under the guidance of a Posit Academy mentor and in the company of a close group of fellow learners. You will be expected to complete a weekly curriculum of interactive tutorials, and to attend a weekly presentation meeting with your mentor and fellow students. Topics will include the basics of R, importing data, visualizing data with ggplot2, wrangling data with dplyr and tidyr, working with strings, factors, and date-times, modelling data with base R, and reporting reproducibly with quarto
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Introduction to Data Science with Python
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Posit Academy Instructors Workshop Duration: 1 Day Workshop
This course is ideal for: • those new to Python • anyone who has dabbled in Python, but is not sure how to use Python to do data science • R users who want to work more closely with Python users on their team
This is not a standard workshop, but a six-week online apprenticeship that culminates in one in-person day at posit::conf(2023). Begins August 7th, 2023. No knowledge of Python required. Visit posit.co/academy to learn more about this uniquely effective learning format.
Here, you will learn the foundations of Python and data analysis under the guidance of a Posit Academy mentor and in the company of a close group of fellow learners. You will be expected to complete a weekly curriculum of interactive tutorials, and to attend a weekly presentation meeting with your mentor and fellow students. Topics will include importing packages and datasets, visualizing data with plotnine, wrangling data with pandas, writing and applying functions, and reporting reproducibly with quarto
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Getting Started with Shiny for R
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Colin Rundel Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • are comfortable with the basics of R, such as writing functions, indexing vectors and lists, debugging simple errors, and working with data structures like data frames • are interested in creating interactive web applications • have no or minimal experience with Shiny for R
Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. This workshop will start at the beginning: designing and creating user interfaces, learning and mastering the reactive model that connects your R code to the interface, and deploying apps publicly and privately. We will wrap up with some intermediate-level tools: debugging and modularizing your apps and implementing dynamic user interfaces. In the end, you’ll be a confident Shiny user, able to design interactive apps to achieve your purpose and produce a polished and professional implementation. If you have a bit of experience, you’ll see things in a new way. If you don’t, we’ll get you started on the right footing
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Fundamentals of Package Development
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Andy Teucher Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This workshop is for you if: • You have written several R scripts and find yourself wondering how to reuse or share the code you’ve written • You know how to write functions in R • You are looking for a way to take the next step in your R programming journey
We will be demonstrating some workflows using Git and GitHub. Knowledge of these tools is not required, and you will absolutely be able to complete the workshop without them, but some of the lessons will be more rewarding to you if you are prepared to try them out. If you are looking to get started with Git and GitHub, we recommend you register for the “What they forgot to teach you about R” workshop on Day 1, and join us for this workshop on Day 2.
We are often faced with the need to share our code with others, or find ourselves writing similar code over and over again across different projects. In R, the fundamental unit of reusable code is a package, containing helpful functions, documentation, and sometimes sample data. This workshop will teach you the fundamentals of package development in R, using tools and principles developed and used extensively by the tidyverse team - specifically the ‘devtools’ family of packages including usethis, testthat, and roxygen2. These packages and workflows help you focus on the contents of your package rather than the minutiae of package structure.
You will learn the structure of a package, how to organize your code, and workflows to help you develop your package iteratively. You will learn how to write good documentation so that users can learn how to use your package, and how to use automated testing to ensure it is functioning the way you expect it to, now and into the future. You will also learn how to check your package for common problems, and how to distribute your package for others to use.
This will be an interactive 1-day workshop, and we will be using the RStudio IDE to work through the materials, as it has been designed to work well with the development practices we will be featuring
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: From R User to R Programmer
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Emma Rand and Ian Lyttle Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • have experience equivalent to an introductory data science course using tidyverse • feel comfortable with the Whole game chapter of R for Data Science
This is a one-day, hands-on workshop for those who have embraced the tidyverse and want to improve their R programming skills and, especially, reduce the amount of duplication in their code. The two main ways to reduce duplication are creating functions and using iteration. We will use a tidyverse approach to cover function design and iteration with {purrr}.
• Master the art of writing functions that do one thing well, adhere to existing conventions and can be fluently combined together to solve more complex problems. • Learn how to perform the same action on many objects using code which is succinct and easy to read
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Engaging and Beautiful Data Visualizations with ggplot2
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Cédric Scherer Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course will be appropriate for you if you: • already know how to create basic graphics with the ggplot2 package • aim to improve the design of your ggplot outputs • want to learn how to create more complex charts which feature multiple layers, annotations, text styling, custom themes, and more
Creating effective and easily accessible data visualizations of high quality in an efficient and preferably reproducible way is an essential skill for everyone working in a data-related field. Luckily, by leveraging the functionality of ggplot2, the most famous package for data visualization with R, and related extension packages one can create highly customized data visualization without the need for post-processing.
This workshop provides everything one needs to know to create and customize numerous chart types with ggplot2. Participants will learn the most important steps and helpful tips to create visually appealing and informative graphics with a code-only approach. The power of ggplot2 and related extension packages will be illustrated with advanced real–life examples that help to understand useful coding tricks and the process of creating engaging and effective visualizations. The workshop will particularly focus on more advanced tasks with ggplot2 such as styling labels and titles, customizing themes and visual aesthetics, and using less-common chart types
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: DevOps for Data Scientists
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Rika Gorn Workshop Duration: 2-Day Workshop
This workshop is for you if you: • are a data scientist or analyst who wants to put their work into production, • want to learn a more about Docker containers and virtual machines, or • want to better understand importance of networking, security, storage, and different server architectures to deploying data apps.
In this workshop, we will discuss ways to better containerize, deploy, and scale your data products. We’ll use both R and shell scripting to virtualize Posit products in the cloud. You’ll learn about servers, networking, security, and authorization to be dangerous – or at least to understand your DevSecOps teams. By the end of the workshop you will have the tools to start deploying your own data science assets into production
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Designing Data Visualizations to Successfully Tell a Story
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Cédric Scherer Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • want to understand and learn the art of communicating data with impactful visualizations • aim to improve your data visualization design to create effective and informative graphics • are willing to spend a bit more time to choose the right chart, proper color palettes, and suitable fonts along with additional elements to guide the viewer
Communicating data through meaningful and easily accessible visualization is a critical competence for most data-related roles including data scientists, analysts, scientific researchers, and managers. A well-designed graphic is able to inform, spark engagement, explain patterns, and drive decisions and actions. At the same time, poor choices in the design process can complicate interpretation or even, intentionally or unintentionally, mislead the audience.
The aim of this course is to demystify the creative processes of data visualization design to turn data into a meaningful story. Participants will learn helpful tips and tricks to create appealing and informative data visualizations that are not “just showing the numbers” but successfully tell a story. We will cover principles of good data visualization design, explore different options to display data, and discuss ways to guide and engage viewers with the aim to create impactful graphics. The course also features sessions on picking suitable yet beautiful colors, what to consider when choosing and pairing typefaces, and the layout of graphics, also in the context of dashboard building
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Deploy and Maintain Models with vetiver
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Julia Silge Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This workshop is for you if you: • have intermediate R or Python knowledge (this will be a “choose your own adventure” workshop where you can work through the exercises in either R or Python) • can read data from CSV and other flat files, transform and reshape data, and make a wide variety of graphs • can fit a model to data with your modeling framework of choice
We expect participants to have exposure to basic modeling and machine learning practice, but NOT expert familiarity with advanced ML or MLOps topics.
Many data scientists understand what goes into training a machine learning or statistical model, but creating a strategy to deploy and maintain that model can be daunting. In this workshop, learn what MLOps (machine learning operations) is, what principles can be used to create a practical MLOps strategy, and what kinds of tasks and components are involved. We’ll use vetiver, a framework for MLOps tasks in Python and R, to version, deploy, and monitor the models you have trained and want to deploy and maintain in production reliably and efficiently
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Data Science Workflows with Posit Tools — R Focus
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Ryan Johnson and Katie Masiello Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • Build finished data products starting from raw data and are looking to improve your workflow • Are looking to expand your knowledge of Posit open source and professional tools • Want to improve interoperability between data products in your work or on your team • Have experience developing in R. An analogous course with a Python focus is also offered
In this R-focused workshop, we will discuss ways to improve your data science workflows! During the course, we will review packages for data validation, alerting, modeling, and more. We’ll use Posit’s open source and professional tools to string all the pieces together for an efficient workflow. We’ll discuss environments, managing deployed content, working with databases, and interoperability across data products
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Data Science Workflows with Posit Tools — Python Focus
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors:Gagan Singh and Sam Edwardes Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop This course is for you if you: • Build finished data products starting from raw data and are looking to improve your workflow • Are looking to expand your knowledge of Posit open source and professional tools • Want to improve interoperability between data products in your work or on your team • Have experience developing in Python. An analogous course with an R focus is also offered
In this Python-focused workshop, we will discuss ways to improve your data science workflows! During the course, we will review packages for data validation, alerting, modeling, and more. We’ll use Posit’s open source and professional tools to string all the pieces together for an efficient workflow. We’ll discuss environments, managing deployed content, working with databases, and interoperability across data products
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Causal Inference with R
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Malcolm Barrett and Travis Gerke
This course is for you if you: • know how to fit a linear regression model in R • have a basic understanding of data manipulation and visualization using tidyverse tools • are interested in understanding the fundamentals behind how to move from estimating correlations to causal relationships
In this workshop, we’ll teach the essential elements of answering causal questions in R through causal diagrams, and causal modeling techniques such as propensity scores and inverse probability weighting.
In both data science and academic research, prediction modeling is often not enough; to answer many questions, we need to approach them causally. In this workshop, we’ll teach the essential elements of answering causal questions in R through causal diagrams, and causal modeling techniques such as propensity scores and inverse probability weighting. We’ll also show that by distinguishing predictive models from causal models, we can better take advantage of both tools. You’ll be able to use the tools you already know–the tidyverse, regression models, and more–to answer the questions that are important to your work
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Big Data with Arrow
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Nic Crane and Stephanie Hazlitt Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • want to learn how to work with tabular data that is too large to fit in memory using existing R and tidyverse syntax implemented in Arrow • want to learn about Parquet and other file formats that are powerful alternatives to CSV files • want to learn how to engineer your tabular data storage for more performant access and analysis with Apache Arrow
Data analysis pipelines with larger-than-memory data are becoming more and more commonplace. In this workshop you will learn how to use Apache Arrow, a multi-language toolbox for working with larger-than-memory tabular data, to create seamless “big” data analysis pipelines with R.
The workshop will focus on using the the arrow R package—a mature R interface to Apache Arrow— to process larger-than-memory files and multi-file data sets with arrow using familiar dplyr syntax. You’ll learn to create and use interoperable data file formats like Parquet for efficient data storage and access, with data stored both on disk and in the cloud, and also how to exercise fine control over data types to avoid common large data pipeline problems. This workshop will provide a foundation for using Arrow, giving you access to a powerful suite of tools for performant analysis of larger-than-memory data in R
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Advanced tidymodels
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Max Kuhn, Software Engineer, Posit Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This workshop is for you if you: • have used tidymodels packages like recipes, rsample, and parsnip • are comfortable with tidyverse syntax (e.g. piping, mutates, pivoting) • have some experience with resampling and modeling (e.g., linear regression, random forests, etc.), but we don’t expect you to be an expert in these
In this workshop, you will learn more about model optimization using the tune and finetune packages, including racing and iterative methods. You’ll be able to do more sophisticated feature engineering with recipes. Time permitting, model ensembles via stacking will be introduced. This course is focused on the analysis of tabular data and does not include deep learning methods.
Participants who have completed the “Introduction to tidymodels” workshop will be well-prepared for this course. Participants who are new to tidymodels will benefit from taking the Introduction to tidymodels workshop before joining this one
posit::conf(2023) Workshop: Advanced Quarto with R + RStudio
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructor: Andrew Bray Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
This course is for you if you: • have a basic knowledge of how to use the RStudio IDE • have experience working with single R Markdown and/or Quarto files • are excited to author multi-document projects like books, websites, and blogs
Participants who are new to computational documents will benefit from taking Intro to Quarto with R and RStudio: Documents and Presentations before joining this workshop.
This workshop will prepare you to author a rich array of documents in Quarto, the next generation of R Markdown. Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that offers multilingual programming language support to create dynamic and static documents, books, presentations, blogs, and other online resources.
The focus for this workshop will be on projects that weave together multiple documents and allow you to write books and build websites. You will also learn various ways to deploy and publish your Quarto projects on the web
posit::conf Workshop:Leveraging & Contributing to the Pharmaverse for Clinical Trial Reporting in R
Register now: http://pos.it/conf Instructors: Pawel Rucki, Christina Fillmore, Thomas Neitmann Workshop Duration: 1-Day Workshop
You should take this workshop if you are interested in the future of clinical trial reporting, and would like to join this shift to between company collaboration.
In this workshop we will introduce the pharmaverse, a collection of open source R packages that provide the next generation backbone for clinical trial reporting. As of March 2023, 123 people from more than 10 companies have contributed to the pharmaverse packages - and this workshop is about how you can both leverage their work to date and get involved to help evolve this important collection of efforts.
We will create ADaM datasets, prepare tables and figures as well as interactive shiny apps. This course will also give a grounding in how to navigate pharmaverse R packages, and their repositories, and understand how you can contribute
Deploying a Python application with Posit Connect
Posit Connect is our flagship publishing platform for data products built in R and Python.
Learn more: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/connect/
Book a demo of Connect: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=RSC_YT_Demo
With Connect, you can deploy, manage, and share your R and Python content, including Shiny applications, Dash, Streamlit, and Voilà applications, R Markdown reports, Jupyter Notebooks, Quarto documents, dashboards, APIs (Plumber, Flask), and more.
Give stakeholders authenticated access to the content they need, and schedule reports to update automatically
Launch different development environments and manage cluster options with Posit Workbench
Posit Workbench: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/workbench/
Data scientists should be able to use the language and development environment they prefer.
Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab, VS Code, and RStudio are all available development environments within Posit Workbench.
Workbench is also exceptional for managing compute resources. Use Kubernetes and Slurm and adjust the CPU and memory to match the job you’re trying to run
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Posit Team is the bundle of our most popular products including: Workbench, Connect, and Package Manager.
Together, this bundle delivers an end-to-end toolchain for data science teams committed to R and Python, improving every step of a data scientist’s workflow, from developing insights, to deploying data products, to managing environments.
Learn more at https://posit.co/products/enterprise/team/
Running multiple R & Python sessions at once on Posit Workbench
Posit Workbench is the premier development experience for professional data scientists who use R and Python.
One of the many great features Workbench offers is the ability to run multiple sessions at once, across different languages and development environments.
In this video, we give you a glimpse of that feature.
To watch the full demo of our professional software, go here: https://youtu.be/1KEX3gZTQnE
Learn more about Posit Workbench: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/workbench/
How to deploy a Dash application from VS Code to Posit Connect
Episode 1: Publishing a Dash application to Posit Connect Led by: Ryan Johnson, Data Science Advisor
Follow-up links:
- Posit Team: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/team/
- Talk to us directly: https://posit.co/schedule-a-call/?booking_calendar__c=RST_YT_Demo
- Follow-along blog post: https://posit.co/blog/deploying-a-dash-application-to-posit-connect/
- Source code for example: https://github.com/sol-eng/python-examples
- Posit Team demo resources: pos.it/demo-resources
Timestamps: 00:53 - What is Posit Team? (Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, Posit Package Manager) 3:25 - JumpStart Examples in Posit Connect 4:00 - Opening up a VS Code Session in Posit Workbench 8:03 - Downloading the Dash JumpStart example in Posit Connect 9:40 - Open up the JumpStart example in VS Code in Posit Workbench 11:18 - Install the required Python packages using pip 12:55 - Python packages on Posit Package Manager 15:12 - Defining the packages you want to install (latest, specific date, etc.) 19:12 - Creating an API key in Posit Connect 20:29 - Deployment process from VS Code to Posit Connect 21:36 - Dash application hosted on Posit Connect 22:23 - Access controls in Posit Connect (sharing with the people who need to see your app) 24:10 - Adjusting the runtime of an application in Posit Connect (controlling compute resources) 26:35 - Tags in Posit Connect 26:48 - Vars (if your content requires privileged access) 27:15 - Recap of what was covered in the demo
On the last Wednesday of every month, we host a Posit Team demo and Q&A session that is open to all. You can use this to add the event to your own calendar.
Who are these monthly demos for? Everyone is welcome to join us - regardless of industry, background, or experience!
We will discuss topics that will speak to:
- Data scientists and administrators new to Posit Team or are looking to grow their understanding of our toolchain,
- Teams searching for a new analytic platform built to support open-source data science,
- And, those that are just curious about Posit Team!
What you can expect from the monthly Posit Team demo:
During the session, we will walk through an end-to-end data science workflow and demo the core functionality of Posit Team while highlighting some of our latest features!
While each session’s content will vary slightly, here are a few core topics we will address each month:
- Open Source Analytics: The future of data science is open source. We’ll discuss methods for leveraging open-source tools and packages in a secure and scalable way!
- Deployment: How to share the amazing data science assets your Team has built, including web applications, machine learning models, APIs, and more!
- Data Access: Data comes in various forms and is stored in various ways. We’ll discuss best practices for accessing, reading, and writing data!
- Job Scheduling: Do you have recurring data science jobs? We’ll show you how to automate these processes using Posit Connect.
What is Posit Team?
Posit Team is a bundle of our popular professional software (Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, and Posit Package Manager) for developing data science projects, publishing data products, and managing packages.
Registration is not required. The event will be streamed through YouTube Premiere
RStudio on Amazon SageMaker
Working with analysis or a data set that exceeds the capabilities of your local workstation? One simple option for scaling up is RStudio on Amazon SageMaker.
See how you can get started quickly.
Link to learn more: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/rstudio.html
Hadley Wickham | {purrr} 1.0: A complete and consistent set of tools for functions and vectors
{purrr} has reached the 1.0 milestone, with new features like progress bars, improvements to the map family, and tools for list flattening and simplification.
0:00 Introduction 0:11 What is purrr? 00:32 What is functional programming? 03:08 Announcing purrr 1.0 03:58 Progress bars 05:18 Better error messages 07:18 New map function: map_vec() 09:58 New list_* functions 12:04 Flattening and simplification 17:40 Breaking Changes 22:34 How the tidyverse handles deprecation 24:41 An overview of functional programming 26:22 Closing, resources to help with deprecation, how to submit issues
See more in the {purrr} 1.0.0 release blog post! https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/03/tidyverse-2-0-0/
Embracing R and Python
Listen to Posit’s Chief Scientist Hadley Wickham talk about the future of Posit.
Visit www.posit.co to learn more
Posit Package Manager | Manage R and Python Packages Across Your Organization
Posit Package Manager is a repository management server to organize and centralize R and Python packages across your organization.
Learn more here: https://posit.co/products/enterprise/package-manager/
Use it to provide full mirrors of CRAN, Bioconductor, and PyPI. Restrict access to potentially harmful public packages by curating your own custom repository with only the packages you need. Support air-gapped environments by providing offline access to your package repository
Rich Iannone | What’s new and exciting in gt 0.8.0 | Posit
With the gt package, anyone can make wonderful-looking tables using the R programming language. Rich Iannone, maintainer of gt, shows what’s new and improved in gt 0.8.0!
00:00 Introduction 00:42 Find/Replace values with sub_values() 02:46 Find values and style them with tab_style_body() 05:00 Place a cell in your Quarto/RMarkdown doc with extract_cells() 07:13 Make numbers more readable with cols_align_decimal() 08:54 See column id info with tab_info() 11:03 Date and time formatting improvements
For more details: • Demo script in this video: https://pos.it/gt8 • Read the blog post on gt 0.8.0: https://posit.co/blog/new-features-upgrades-in-gt-0-8-0/ • Learn more at https://gt.rstudio.com/ • See a full list of new features and improvements at https://gt.rstudio.com/news/index.html#gt-080
Quarto with the Quarto Team | An Open-Source Chat
Join Al Manning, Carlos SchIidegger, & Charles Teague, members of the Quarto Team, as they take our questions.
Quarto is an open-source tool for scientific and technical publishing. Create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable. Author documents as plain text markdown or Jupyter notebooks. Publish high-quality articles, reports, presentations, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more. Author with scientific markdown, including equations, citations, crossrefs, figure panels, callouts, advanced layout, and more.
Key Resources: ⬡ Learn more and get started with Quarto at quarto.org
Contact ⬡ Bug reports and feature requests - https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues ⬡ Need help? Github discussions - https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions
Introduction Videos for Quarto ⬡ Mine and Julia talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Hxu4coDl8 ⬡ Quarto Series, 1️⃣ Welcome to Quarto Workshop led by Tom Mock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvi5uXQMvu4 2️⃣ Building a Blog with Quarto led by Isabella Velásquez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVcvXfRyfE0&feature=youtu.be 3️⃣ Beautiful reports and presentations with Quarto led by Tom Mock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbf7Ai3jnxY&feature=youtu.be
Timestamps
00:00:00 Introductions
2:55 Why open source?
6:20 Can we expect to see Quarto available to R-users via CRAN any time soon?
9:10 Quarto and Google Docs?
9:49 Lua filters/shortcodes. Advice for a good development environment for prototyping and debugging?
14:59 Is there a single documentation page for ALL the quarto-specific YAML options? https://quarto.org/docs/reference
16:15 Navigating Quarto’s documentation.
18:00 Is there something like Observable SQL cells on the roadmap?
20:10 Is there something closer to {bookdown} for Quarto? What is the best way to retain data and environment objects in a quarto book? Is there any path to enabling this? See Includes, https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/includes.html
24:20 Flexdashboard? Coming soon.
26:30 A big challenge in the adoption is that Quarto is competing with ipython notebooks for mindspace, what does the Quarto team think about that? Quarto and Jupyter Notebooks will hopefully be thought of as complementary to one another, with Quarto helping a lot with narrative, layout, and appearance for publication and sharing.
30:10 Where should I go to contact you about an issue? What if the issue isn’t just Quarto, say, Quarto + Jupyter?
31:50: What is the Quarto team hoping to see the community produce? Feedback, reporting in github issues. Quarto Extensions.
34:05 Custom styling, configuring grid options. Any tips or anything in the roadmap that will help users finetune the look and feel of their output?
38:40 Terminology question; what do we call a published Quarto doc? (or webpage, blog, etc.?)
40:00 How do I stay up to date with Quarto? Getting the latest release and learning about what is new?
See what’s up on quarto.org. Look under get-started and under downloads for pre-releases
What is Posit Connect | Deploy All of Your R & Python Content
Posit Connect is our flagship professional product for data scientists that want to share their data products with other.
Learn more at https://posit.co/products/enterprise/connect/
Whether you’re building a Shiny application, a Dash application, a Quarto report, or dashboard, you can host it on Posit Connect.
Posit Connect supports all the languages that data scientists love, as well as the development environments they love to build in
Open Source Chat - {gt} with Rich Iannone
Join Rich Iannone, maintainer of the {gt} package, as he takes questions from the community about the latest in {gt} v0.7.0, and building great looking data display tables with R.
Key Resources: ⬡ Get started with {gt} - https://gt.rstudio.com
Reach out: 38:48 - How do I ask Rich about {gt}, feature requests, bug reports, how to solve a problem via {gt}? Rich and the {gt} team would love to hear from you. ⬡ Feature requests & bug reports with GitHub Issues, https://github.com/rstudio/gt/issues ⬡ GitHub Discussions, https://github.com/rstudio/gt/discussions ⬡ Ask the community a question, https://community.rstudio.com/tag/gt ⬡ Follow {gt} on Twitter, feel free to reach out and ask questions, https://twitter.com/gt_package
Timestamps
Rich Iannone Introduction.
03:52 - Why {gt}? - What does {gt} bring to the table? Why so much effort into static, data display tables?
05:50 - Why open source? Why is {gt} open source and why have you dedicated your career to develop open source software?
08:30 - {gt} v0.7.0, Tell us about those new vector formatting functions in {gt}. Why did you include them? Could you show us some examples?
{gt}’s vector formatting functions help you customize the styling, look and feel of your values. Converting the output values R gives you, and making them look exactly the way you want them to can be tricky. A lot of work was put into {gt} to give nice value formatting options. You can now access all these outside of a gt table; e.g. in text, in a plot, etc.
22:35 - Could you provide an example or two with the new styling function called opt_stylize()? What kinds of tables can you make with that? Can you extend that with your own tweaks?
28:15 - Can you make your own themes and share them? “How do I create my own custom theme for my table? A theme I can share with the rest of my organization?”
31:58 - What is the distinction between tab_options and the opt_* functions? Why would a function be in opt_* and not tab_options?
34:00 - sub_values() function, to find and replace certain values in your table.
36:50 - What is the current support for latex in {gt} at the moment? “Personally, I much prefer HTML, but for scientific publications, we are asked to provide a LaTeX file.”
42:50 - “In my work, I often produce A4 output in PDF, mainly with ggplot2 content. It would be nice to be able to combine ggplot + gt tables in a similar way {patchwork} works. Having the plot and the table next to it is very useful sometimes.”
44:30 - Interactive Tables with {gt}?
47:45 - “Any plans to make applying of same style to several columns easier? Unless I’m mistaken, the locations argument of tab_style requires one to specify an individual column. See here: https://gt.rstudio.com/reference/tab_style.html#examples."
Yes, supply a vector of columns or use tidyselect functions.
49:15 - “Excel output with {gt}? Would be a huge improvement. I often have to produce tabular output that can be easily reused. Usually it means Excel tables. So far I have mainly done this with Python and openpyxl or PyWin32 (through COM). A simple solution in R would be great.”
50:20 - Support for additional output formats with {gt}? Excel, PowerPoint, etc.?
50:25 - {pointplank}, a package to methodically validate your data whether in the form of data frames or as database tables., https://rich-iannone.github.io/pointblank/
. Check out the workshop materials at https://github.com/rich-iannone/pointblank-workshop
55:50 - “Are there ways to have grouped rows? I mean when repeated rows have same characters can we merge them to one?”
58:00 - “Is there an ability to add ‘battleship coordinates’ (e.g. column letters & row numbers) to a gt object? This is a standard for table across my org and I’ve been trying to figure out how to implement it.”
59:59 “Do you have suggestions or examples of building out & applying corporate formatting to gt tables (e.g. adding a company logo, company colors, etc.)?”
01:04:30 - “With PDF/LaTeX output for wide tables, it does not shrink the table.”
What’s New in {gt} 0.7.0?
gt 0.7.0 was just released. Rich Iannone, maintainer of gt, dives into the 7 new features added.
For more details, ⬢ Read the blog post on gt 0.7 https://www.rstudio.com/blog/all-new-things-in-gt-0-7-0/ . ⬢ Learn more about gt at https://gt.rstudio.com/ . ⬢ Follow the gt twitter account, https://twitter.com/gt_package .
00:07 The new Word table output format, .docx output. 00:34 A whole new family of vector formatting functions (vec_fmt_*()) has been added. 01:03 Table presets/themes styling with the new opt_stylize() function. 01:50 The new tab_stub_indent() for superfine control over row label indentation (in the stub) 02:26 The new fmt_duration() function for formatting of time duration values. 03:32 An upgraded gtsave() that uses {webshot2}, .png output looks better. 04:14 Accessibility enhancements for HTML table outputs
Plot Outputs in Shiny for Python || Winston Chang || RStudio
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web applications with the power of Python’s data and scientific stack. You can try out Shiny for Python without installing a single thing… All in the browser.
Learn more about Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Check out our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Winston Chang (@winston_chang)
Multiple Inputs in Shiny for Python || Winston Chang || RStudio
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web applications with the power of Python’s data and scientific stack. You can try out Shiny for Python without installing a single thing… All in the browser.
Learn more about Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Check out our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Winston Chang (@winston_chang)
Getting Started with Shiny for Python - in the browser! || Winston Chang || Posit
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web applications with the power of Python’s data and scientific stack. You can try out Shiny for Python without installing a single thing… All in the browser.
Learn more about Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Check out our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Winston Chang (@winston_chang)
Submitting Your Work to the Table Contest | 2022 Table Contest
Rich Iannone walks through how to submit a table to the 2022 Table Contest. He explains considerations for each field, and how to update & edit your entry afterwards.
Learn more about the 2022 Table Contest at https://www.rstudio.com/blog/rstudio-table-contest-2022/
Create & Publish a Quarto Blog on Quarto Pub in 100 Seconds | Quarto Pub
Thomas Mock, Quarto Product Manager, walks you through how to build a simple blog with Quarto and share it with the world on quarto.pub, all in less than two minutes.
Quarto is the multi-language publishing system. It also allows you to publish executable code blocks to include R, Python, Julia, or Observable JS output in your blog posts (and many other formats).
Quarto websites and blogs are particularly excellent ways to develop your technical skills and share your learnings with the world.
Resources, ⬡ Creating a Quarto Blog, https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-blog.html ⬡ Publishing to Quarto Pub, https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/quarto-pub.html ⬡ Customize your Quarto blog or Website. This example creates and deploys a simple Quarto blog template, but there are ways to customize and style your content. Isabella Velásquez walks through this in detail at the Sept 2022 meetup, https://youtu.be/CVcvXfRyfE0 ⬡ Learn more about Quarto at quarto.org.
Requirements,
- To publish from the RStudio IDE, you’ll need to be working on a recent version of RStudio, v2022.07.1 or later.
- You may also work from Jupyter Labs, VS Code, or a notebook integrated with the Quarto CLI
Wrangling data for a Shiny app in Python || Michael Chow || Posit
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web applications with the power of Python’s data and scientific stack.
Learn more about Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Check out our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Michael Chow (@chowthedog) Producer: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Editing and Motion Design: Tony Pelleriti (@TonyPelleriti)
Shinywidgets - An Overview || Carson Sievert || RStudio
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web applications with the power of Python’s data and scientific stack.
Shinywidgets lets you use ipywidgets in Shiny for Python applications. We called it ipyShiny during development, but we’re launching as Shinywidgets! Learn more about how to integrate them into your Shiny for Python apps. .
Learn more about Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Check out our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) Producer: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Editing and Motion Design: Tony Pelleriti (@TonyPelleriti)
Shiny UI Editor Project Walkthrough || Nick Strayer || RStudio
The Shiny UI Editor is a dynamic drag-and drop interface to help you design beautiful Shiny apps. The Shiny UI Editor is a visual tool for building the UI portion of a Shiny application that generates clean and human-readable code.
The goal of the Shiny UI Editor is to allow people to build the broad-level UI for their Shiny app without writing code. The editor is intended for those who may not be comfortable with the HTML-style code of Shiny’s UI functions or who simply don’t want to fiddle with sizes to get things laid out correctly.
Learn more about the Shiny UI Editor here: https://rstudio.github.io/shinyuieditor/ And read up on GridLayout here: https://rstudio.github.io/gridlayout
Content: Nick Strayer (@NicholasStrayer) Producer: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Editing and Motion Design: Tony Pelleriti (@TonyPelleriti)
Shiny UI Editor Feature Tour || Nick Strayer || Posit (RStudio)
The Shiny UI Editor is a dynamic drag-and drop interface to help you design beautiful Shiny apps. The Shiny UI Editor is a visual tool for building the UI portion of a Shiny application that generates clean and human-readable code.
The goal of the Shiny UI Editor is to allow people to build the broad-level UI for their Shiny app without writing code. The editor is intended for those who may not be comfortable with the HTML-style code of Shiny’s UI functions or who simply don’t want to fiddle with sizes to get things laid out correctly.
Learn more about the Shiny UI Editor here: https://rstudio.github.io/shinyuieditor/ And read up on GridLayout here: https://rstudio.github.io/gridlayout
Content: Nick Strayer (@NicholasStrayer) Producer: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Editing and Motion Design: Tony Pelleriti (@TonyPelleriti)
Shiny Programming Practices || Joe Cheng || Posit
Have you ever wanted to sit down and talk with Joe Cheng, the creator of Shiny and CTO of Posit (RStudio) and ask him how he approaches programming? Look no further - we’ve got that conversation for you right here!
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R or Python. You can host standalone apps on a webpage or embed them in Markdown-style documents or build dashboards. You can also extend your Shiny apps with CSS themes, htmlwidgets, and JavaScript actions.
Learn more about Shiny: https://shiny.rstudio.com/ Check out Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Explore our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Joe Cheng (@jcheng) Producer: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Editing and Motion Design: Tony Pelleriti (@TonyPelleriti)
Hello, World! A Quick Tour of Shiny for Python || Carson Sievert || Posit
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web applications with the power of Python’s data and scientific stack.
Learn more about Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Check out our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) Producer: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Editing and Motion Design: Tony Pelleriti (@TonyPelleriti)
Getting Started with {shinytest2} Part I || Example + basics || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:48 Overview of the demo Shiny app 03:00 Running record_test() 04:44 Results from record_test() 07:18 A note on .png files created during testing 08:52 Debugging with shinytest2 09:32 Using app$view() to open a visual representation of a headless browser
Part 2 - Exporting values: https://youtu.be/7KLv6HdIxvU Part 3 - Using shiny.testmode: https://youtu.be/xDxa_mDwN04
Manually testing Shiny applications is often laborious, inconsistent, and doesn’t scale well. Whether you are developing new features, fixing bug(s), or simply upgrading dependencies on a serious app where mistakes have real consequences, it is critical to know when regressions are introduced. shinytest2 provides a streamlined toolkit for unit testing Shiny applications and seamlessly integrates with the popular testthat framework for unit testing R code.
shinytest2 uses chromote to render applications in a headless Chrome browser. chromote allows for a live preview, better debugging tools, and/or simply using modern JavaScript/CSS.
By simply recording your actions as code and extending them to test the more particular aspects of your application, it will result in fewer bugs and more confidence in future Shiny application development.
Read up on shinytest2 here: https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/
Learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Barret Schloerke (@schloerke) Motion design and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Theme song: Brad PKL by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/113507 )
Getting Started with {shinytest2} Part 3 || Using shiny.testmode in {shinytest2} || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:15 Testing production apps
Part 1 - Getting started: https://youtu.be/SS1Na3c8lhk Part 2 - Exporting values: https://youtu.be/7KLv6HdIxvU
Manually testing Shiny applications is often laborious, inconsistent, and doesn’t scale well. Whether you are developing new features, fixing bug(s), or simply upgrading dependencies on a serious app where mistakes have real consequences, it is critical to know when regressions are introduced. shinytest2 provides a streamlined toolkit for unit testing Shiny applications and seamlessly integrates with the popular testthat framework for unit testing R code.
shinytest2 uses chromote to render applications in a headless Chrome browser. chromote allows for a live preview, better debugging tools, and/or simply using modern JavaScript/CSS.
By simply recording your actions as code and extending them to test the more particular aspects of your application, it will result in fewer bugs and more confidence in future Shiny application development.
Read up on shinytest2 here: https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/
Learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Barret Schloerke (@schloerke) Motion design and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Theme song: Brad PKL by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/113507 )
Getting Started with {shinytest2} Part 2 || Exporting values || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:29 Exporting reactives 03:28 Using exportTestValues()
Part 1 - Getting started: https://youtu.be/SS1Na3c8lhk Part 3 - Using shiny.testmode: https://youtu.be/xDxa_mDwN04
Manually testing Shiny applications is often laborious, inconsistent, and doesn’t scale well. Whether you are developing new features, fixing bug(s), or simply upgrading dependencies on a serious app where mistakes have real consequences, it is critical to know when regressions are introduced. shinytest2 provides a streamlined toolkit for unit testing Shiny applications and seamlessly integrates with the popular testthat framework for unit testing R code.
shinytest2 uses chromote to render applications in a headless Chrome browser. chromote allows for a live preview, better debugging tools, and/or simply using modern JavaScript/CSS.
By simply recording your actions as code and extending them to test the more particular aspects of your application, it will result in fewer bugs and more confidence in future Shiny application development.
Read up on shinytest2 here: https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/
Learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Barret Schloerke (@schloerke) Motion design and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Theme song: Brad PKL by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/113507 )
Data visualization and plotting with Shiny for Python || Carson Sievert || RStudio
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web applications with the power of Python’s data and scientific stack.
Learn more about Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Check out our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) Producer: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Editing and Motion Design: Tony Pelleriti (@TonyPelleriti)
An Interview with Winston Chang: Building a Wordle App with Shiny for Python || RStudio
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web applications with the power of Python’s data and scientific stack.
Learn more about Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Check out our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Winston Chang (@winston_chang) + Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Producer: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Editing and Motion Design: Tony Pelleriti (@TonyPelleriti)
A Beginner’s Guide to Shiny for Python || Winston Chang || Posit
Shiny makes it easy to build interactive web applications with the power of Python’s data and scientific stack.
Learn more about Shiny for Python: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/ Check out our interactive Shiny for Python examples: https://shinylive.io/py/examples/
Content: Winston Chang (@winston_chang) Producer: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Editing and Motion Design: Tony Pelleriti (@TonyPelleriti)
Programming Games with Shiny || Roll the Dice: with Quosures! || RStudio
00:00 Introduction
03:44 The pain of copy + paste
07:28 Going on a helper function adventure!
18:09 Ready for rlang
28:17 !! + enquo()
37:57 Benefits of the rlang approach
38:46 Embracing the embrace operator
41:33 Visualizing what’s happening using reactlog
You’ve most likely used Shiny to build a web app that displays data, but you can also use Shiny to build games! In this video series, Jesse and Barret pair program simply games in Shiny as a way to uncover and explore new features.
Read up on the embrace operator here: https://rlang.r-lib.org/reference/embrace-operator.html
Learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Barret Schloerke (@schloerke) and Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Animation, motion design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Theme song: Hakodate Line by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/111291" )
Rich Iannone || New features in {gt} 0.6.0! || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:18 sub_missing() 03:51 Markdown formatting in sub_missing() 04:51 sub_zero() 07:34 sub_small_vals() 13:08 sub_large_vals() 16:25 final thoughts
A new version of the R package {gt} has been released! We are now at version 0.6.0 and there are now even more features that’ll make your display/summary tables look and work much, much better. Let’s run through some of the bigger changes and see the benefits they can bring!
New functions for substituting cell data
We now have four new functions that allow you to make precise substitutions of cell values with perhaps something more meaningful. They all begin with sub_ and that’s short for substitution!
sub_missing() (formerly known as fmt_missing()) Here’s something that’s both old and new. The sub_missing() function (for replacing NAs with… something) is new, but it’s essentially replacing a function that is old (fmt_missing()).
The missing_text replacement of “—” is actually an em dash (the longest of the dash family). This can be downgraded to an en dash with “–” or we can go further with “-”, giving us a hyphen replacement. Or, you can use another piece of text.
If you’re using and loving fmt_missing(), it’s okay! You’ll probably receive a warning about it when you upgrade to {gt} 0.6.0 though. Best to just substitute fmt_missing() with sub_missing() anyway!
sub_zero() The sub_zero() function allows for substituting zero values in the table body.
sub_small_vals() Next up is the sub_small_vals() function. Ever have really, really small values and really just want to say they are small?
With sub_small_vals() we can reformat smaller numbers using the default threshold of 0.01.
Small and negative values can also be handled but they are handled specially by the sign parameter. Setting that to “-” will format only the small, negative values.
You don’t have to settle with the default threshold value or the default replacement pattern (in small_pattern). This can be changed and the “x” in small_pattern (which uses the threshold value) can even be omitted.
sub_large_vals() Okay, there’s one more substitution function to cover, and this one’s for all the large values in your table: sub_large_vals(). With this you can substitute what you might consider as too large values in the table body.
Large negative values can also be handled but they are handled specially by the sign parameter. Setting that to “-” will format only the large values that are negative. You don’t have to settle with the default threshold value or the default replacement pattern (in large_pattern). This can be changed and the “x” in large_pattern (which uses the threshold value) can even be omitted.
Final thoughts We are always trying to improve the gt package with a mix of big features (some examples: improving rendering, adding new families of functions) and numerous tiny features (like improving existing functions, clarifying documentation, etc.). It’s hoped that the things delivered in gt 0.6.0 lead to improvements in how you create and present summary tables in R. If there are features you really want, always feel free to:
File an issue: https://github.com/rstudio/gt/issues ) Talk about your ideas on the Discussions page: https://github.com/rstudio/gt/discussions
Learn more about the gt package here: https://gt.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Rich Iannone (@riannone) Motion Design & editing: Jesse Mostipak Music: Nu Fornacis by Blue Dot Sessions https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/98983
{gt} Table Battles || Eurovision || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:07 Jesse’s gt table, with a focus on flag emoji and interactivity via a Shiny app 09:50 Rich’s gt table, with a focus on CSS and embedded animations
Code: https://github.com/kierisi/rstudio_videos/tree/main/gt/table-battles
Learn more about the gt package here: https://gt.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Rich Iannone (@riannone) & Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Motion Design & editing: Jesse Mostipak Music: Gemeni City by Blue Dot Sessions https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/113567
Programming Games with Shiny || Roll the Dice || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 01:40 Rolling with eventReactive( ) 06:26 Reducing eventReactive( ) to reactive( ) + isolate( ) 16:23 Combining reactive( ) and bindEvent( ) 20:11 Reviewing our reactives 21:23 Writing a function to de-duplicate dice rolls
You’ve most likely used Shiny to build a web app that displays data, but you can also use Shiny to build games! In this video series, Jesse and Barret pair program simply games in Shiny as a way to uncover and explore new features.
Read up on tabset panels here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/reference/shiny/0.14/tabsetPanel.html
Learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Barret Schloerke (@schloerke) and Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Animation, motion design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Theme song: Hakodate Line by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/111291" )
{gt} Table Battles || Crosswords || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:34 Rich’s gt table, with a focus on creating audio within a table 07:28 Jesse’s gt table, with a focus on sentiment analysis
Learn more about the gt package here: https://gt.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Rich Iannone (@riannone) & Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Motion Design & editing: Jesse Mostipak Music: Nu Fornacis by Blue Dot Sessions https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/98983
Posit Package Manager || Link Your Package Manager Repo to Your RStudio IDE || Posit
In this video Jeremey Allen walks through connecting Posit Package Manager to Workbench for fast and secure access to the organization’s R and Python libraries.
Posit Package Manager is a repository management server to organize and centralize packages across your team, department, or entire organization. Get offline access to CRAN, PyPI, and Bioconductor, share local packages, restrict package access, find packages across repositories, and more. Experience reliable and consistent package management, optimized for data science.
Learn more about Posit Package Manager here: https://www.rstudio.com/products/package-manager/
Got questions? Check out the Posit Package Manager Frequently Asked Questions page: https://docs.rstudio.com/rspm/admin/getting-started/faq/
Katie Masiello || Build a Codenames app using {pins} and Shiny! || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:05 Project outline 03:56 Create a codename generator (using RMarkdown) 09:35 Publish to RStudio Connect 10:38 Create a Shiny app 18:15 A little bit of troubleshooting 18:18 Ta-da!
Learn more about the pins package here: https://pins.rstudio.com/ Learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/ And learn more about RStudio Connect here: https://www.rstudio.com/products/connect/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Katie Masiello (@katieontheridge) Animation, motion design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Theme song: Contrarian by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/64281 )
RStudio’s {pins} package: what it is, how it works, and what it can do for you! || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:09 What is the pins package? 01:49 pins - not just for RStudio Connect! 02:31 pins use cases 04:47 How to use pins instead of final_final_01_noreallyfinal.xls 06:37 How do pin boards work? 08:55 Getting started with pins 10:42 Versioning with pins at the board or pin level 11:47 pins and caching 12:13 Things you shouldn’t pin 14:00 Major functions in the pins package 17:21 Using pin_upload( ) and pin_download( ) 19:52 pins and Google Cloud 21:27 pins and modelops with the vetiver package
Learn more about the pins package here: https://pins.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Katie Masiello (@katieontheridge) and Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Animation, motion design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Theme song: Contrarian by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/64281 )
Programming Games with Shiny || Guess the Number || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:35 Setting up our app UI 06:19 Using observeEvent() 10:02 Writing an if else statement as part of our feedback mechanism 13:40 Testing our app and deciding which bugs to fix first 14:20 Check yourself before you req() yourself 17:10 Using tabset panels to control what the user sees
You’ve most likely used Shiny to build a web app that displays data, but you can also use Shiny to build games! In this video series, Jesse and Barret pair program simply games in Shiny as a way to uncover and explore new features.
Read up on tabset panels here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/reference/shiny/1.5.0/tabsetPanel.html
Learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Barret Schloerke (@schloerke) and Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Animation, motion design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Theme song: Hakodate Line by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/91291 )
{gt} Table Battles || Digital Publications || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:32 Jesse’s gt table, with a focus on changing background cell color 07:11 Rich’s gt table, which uses three different tables to create a fixed-size scrollable gt table
You can find the code for each table here: https://github.com/kierisi/rstudio_videos/tree/main/gt/table-battles/01_round-01_digital-publications
Learn more about the gt package here: https://gt.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Rich Iannone (@riannone) & Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Motion Design & editing: Jesse Mostipak Music: Nu Fornacis by Blue Dot Sessions https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/98983
Rich Iannone || {gt} Intendo Game Data Project Walkthrough || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:11 Setting up our environment 01:21 Importing data 01:56 Data preparation using the tidyverse 14:12 Basic gt table 16:25 Specifying row order with row_group_order() 17:20 Formatting currency with fmt_currency() 18:10 Formatting missing values with fmt_missing() 18:55 Creating row groups with tab_options() 19:50 Relabel column names with cols_label() 20:41 Creating tab spanners with tab_spanner() 23:00 Creating a table title and subtitle with tab_header() 24:40 Aligning table title and subtitle with opt_align_table_header() 25:16 Creating a stubhead label with tab_stubhead() 26:00 Format all table cell text using tab_style() 27:25 Automatically format data color based on value using data_color() 30:45 Creating Markdown-friendly source notes using tab_source_note() 32:45 Creating Markdown-friendly footnotes using tab_footnote() 39:28 Adjust table column width using cols_width() 40:55 Adjust cell padding using opt_horizontal_padding() and opt_vertical_padding() 42:22 Change row group headers using tab_style() 43:40 Convert all table text to small caps using opt_all_caps() 43:58 Change all table text font using opt_table_font() 44:28 Changing table, table heading, footnotes, and source notes background color using tab_options() 46:41 Add a table “cap” at the top and bottom using table.border.top.width() and table.border.bottom.width() 47:23 Use multiline formatting with footnotes using footnotes.multiline() 47:34 Change line style using table_body.hlines.style() 47:55 Change table title and subtitle font sizes using heading.title.font.size() and heading.subtitle.font.size() 48:11 Checking out our final table!
Code to recreate the table from the video: https://github.com/kierisi/rstudio_videos/blob/main/gt/rich-intendo-project-walkthrough/intendo-30032022.R
Learn more about the gt package here: https://gt.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Rich Iannone (@riannone) Motion design and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Music: Nu Fornacis by Blue Dot Sessions https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/98983
“A Stroke of Innovation,” a Posit Film
This snippet is from Posit’s short film, “A Stroke of Innovation,” detailing the incredible work done by the data science team at the City of Reykjavík.
You can watch the whole film and read the entire story here: https://posit.co/about/customer-stories/iceland/
Posit Presents: A Stroke of Innovation
Introducing “A Stroke of Innovation,” a short film made possible by a team of innovators looking to make the world a better place.
Visit https://posit.co/about/customer-stories/iceland/ for the full web experience
Programming Games with Shiny || Dragon Realm || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:05 Fun dragon facts 00:35 Describing the Dragon Realm game 01:20 Outlining our approach 04:38 Coding the basics of our app 10:15 Programming our action buttons 14:10 A note on coding objects “outside” of Shiny 15:27 Programming cave choice logic 20:29 Connecting action buttons to our consequences function 29:40 Creating separate pages using tabsetPanel() 39:35 Conclusion
You’ve most likely used Shiny to build a web app that displays data, but you can also use Shiny to build games! In this video series, Jesse and Barret pair program simply games in Shiny as a way to uncover and explore new features.
And because we know you’ll ask, Jesse is using the Woodland theme from the base16 palette. You can get it - and other themes - from the {rsthemes} package: https://github.com/gadenbuie/rsthemes
Read up on tabset panels here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/reference/shiny/1.5.0/tabsetPanel.html
Learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Barret Schloerke (@schloerke) and Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Animation, motion design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Intro music: RGift by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/91282 ) Theme song: Hakodate Line by Blue Dot Sessions (https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/91291 )
Carson Sievert || Using tagQuery() from {htmltools} to modify HTML snippets in R || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:45 Motivating example - enabling front-facing camera as an input for fileInput() 01:55 Breaking down the return value of fileInput() 04:16 Design philosophy of fileInput() 07:27 tagAppendAttributes() overview 11:05 tagQuery() basics 12:00 Quick overview of the htmltools package 13:18 How tagQuery() is used to append attributes 20:54 How tagQuery() is used to append children 23:45 Using tagQuery() on an actionButton()
Learn more about tagQuery here: https://rstudio.github.io/htmltools/articles/tagQuery.html
Read up on tagAppendAttributes() here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/reference/shiny/latest/tagAppendAttributes.html
And learn more about the htmltools package here: https://rstudio.github.io/htmltools/index.html
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Developer (@winston_chang) Animation, design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
James Blair || Getting Started with {plumbertableau} || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 01:19 Setting up the problem - capitalizing text with a custom function 02:18 Using Plumber to create an API for our function 04:08 Using Run API + Swagger from the RStudio IDE 05:44 Giving Tableau access to the function with PlumberTableau 09:16 Reviewing what we’ve done so far 09:47 Comparing results between Plumber and PlumberTableau 10:12 Overview of what PlumberTableau does 14:27 Centralized hosting with RStudio Connect 15:17 Looking at our API in RStudio Connect 18:14 How to access the deployed API from Tableau 21:03 Overview of RStudio Connect, Tableau, and PlumberTableau process 21:52 More in-depth example using sample sales data 22:36 Example with the Python equivalent of PlumberTableau, FastAPITableau 25:15 Overview of how these Tableau extension packages work 27:21 Setting up a connection between Tableau and RStudio Connect
Read more about the plumbertableau package here: https://rstudio.github.io/plumbertableau/
And learn about the fastapitableau package here: https://rstudio.github.io/fastapitableau/
If you’re unfamiliar with Plumber, this Quickstart guide gives a good overview of the package: https://www.rplumber.io/articles/quickstart.html And you can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: James Blair (@Blair09M) Design and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Music: Borough by Blue Dot Sessions https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/89821
Carson Sievert || Customizing Navigation Items in Shiny using {bslib} || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:15 Linking inside navbarPage 01:19 Replacing tabPanel with navbarPage, and navbarMenu 02:32 nav_spacer() 03:41 Adding header and//or footer content 04:07 Replacing tabsetPanel with navs_tab and navs_pill 04:32 navs_tab_card() and navs_pill_card() variants 04:40 Demo of all of the nav_*() functions
The bslib R package provides tools for customizing Bootstrap themes directly from R, making it much easier to customize the appearance of Shiny apps & R Markdown documents. bslib’s primary goals are:
- To make custom theming as easy as possible.
- Custom themes may even be created interactively in real-time.
- Also provide easy access to pre-packaged Bootswatch themes.
- Make upgrading from Bootstrap 3 to 4 (and beyond) as seamless as possible. (Shiny and R Markdown default to Bootstrap 3 and will continue to do so to avoid breaking legacy code.)
- Serve as a general foundation for Shiny and R Markdown extension packages. (Extensions such as flexdashboard, pkgdown, and bookdown already fully support bslib’s custom theming capabilities.)
You can read more about bslib here: https://rstudio.github.io/bslib/articles/bslib.html And you can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) Design & editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Carson Sievert || Developing Shiny Custom Themes in Real Time Using {bslib}| RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:09 The magic of bs_theme_preview() 01:43 The interactive widget provided by bs_theme_preview() 02:12 Using Bootswatch themes 02:57 Using the interactive widget to adjust your theme in real time 03:38 Integration with Google Fonts 04:22 Thematic is enabled in bs_theme_preview() 04:45 DT tables is enabled in bs_theme_preview() 05:30 Going from the interactive widget to your R code 07:03 Using interactive theming on your own Shiny app 09:01 Interactive theming with R Markdown documents
The bs_theme_preview() function launches an example shiny app via run_with_themer() and bs_theme_dependencies(). This is useful for getting a quick preview of the current theme setting as well as an interactive GUI for tweaking some of the main theme settings. Link to docs: https://rstudio.github.io/bslib/reference/bs_theme_preview.html
You can read more about the bslib package here: https://rstudio.github.io/bslib/ And you can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) Design and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Carson Sievert || Custom Theming with {bslib} in Shiny and R Markdown using bs_theme() || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 01:15 Jumping right in with the theme argument in Shiny 01:31 Shiny’s classic navbarPage using bs_theme() 01:46 Specifying your Bootstrap version 02:31 Using the theme argument in R Markdown 03:17 Custom theming in R Markdown using bs_theme() 04:10 bslib templates provided by RStudio 05:33 Review of common arguments for the theme parameter 08:47 Tips for working with dark themes 10:34 Introduction to the thematic package, which styles plots 12:04 How thematic handles fonts 13:09 Using fonts with bslib in R Markdown 14:36 Moving a theme from an R Markdown document into a Shiny app 16:51 Setting warnings for contrast ratios 18:42 A quick tour of Bootstrap 4 and Bootstrap 5 Sass variables 20:35 A quick overview of writing custom HTML in Shiny 22:15 How bslib automatically handles color contrast ratios
bs_theme() allows you to creates a Bootstrap theme object, where you can choose a (major) Bootstrap version, choose a Bootswatch theme (optional), customize main colors and fonts via explicitly named arguments (e.g., bg, fg, primary, etc), and customize other, lower-level, Bootstrap Sass variable defaults via ….
You can read more about the bslib package here: https://rstudio.github.io/bslib/ And you can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Carson Sievert (@cpsievert) Design and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Barret Schloerke || Maximize computing resources using future_promise() || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 01:45 Setting up a multisession using the future package 02:05 Simulation using two workers 04:14 Simulation using 10 workers 05:20 What happens when we run out of workers? 05:35 How Shiny handles future processes like promises 07:16 Introduction to future_promise() 07:45 Demo of the promises package 09:21 Setting the number of workers 10:40 Demo of processing without future_promise() 14:11 Wrapping a slow calculation in a future() 14:53 Demo of processing using Plumber 16:25 Considerations on the number of cores to use 17:21 What happens if we run out of workers? 19:44 Decrease in execution times using future_promise()
In an ideal situation, the number of available future workers (future::nbrOfFreeWorkers()) is always more than the number of future::future() jobs. However, if a future job is attempted when the number of free workers is 0, then future will block the current R session until one becomes available.
The advantage of using future_promise() over future::future() is that even if there aren’t future workers available, the future is scheduled to be done when workers become available via promises. In other words, future_promise() ensures the main R thread isn’t blocked when a future job is requested and can’t immediately perform the work (i.e., the number of jobs exceeds the number of workers).
You can read more about the promises package here: https://rstudio.github.io/promises/articles/shiny.html And you can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Barret Schloerke (@schloerke) Design and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Nick Strayer || Part IV: Styling a Shiny Wordle App with CSS || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:44 Switching from verbatimTextOutput to uiOutput 01:42 Switching from renderText to HTML DOM elements 03:17 In-line styling with divs 07:30 Converting individual letters from block elements to adjacent grids with CSS grid 08:56 Adding CSS at the head of the UI variable in Shiny with tags$head (and wrapping with HTML!) 10:36 CSS targeting of the background color 12:24 Link: Complete Guide to CSS Grid 14:05 Moving text position within each individual div using CSS classes 16:48 Creating a gap between grid elements 17:13 Rounding border edges for letter grids 19:00 Formatting letter grid background color to indicate result “correctness” 21:30 Increasing font size 23:37 Updating the legend to use color, not text indicators 26:40 Adjusting padding to improve app aesthetic 28:08 Formatting the app UI with justified centering 31:56 Adjusting the text input and Go button 34:07 Why Flexbox is the right tool for this task 35:09 Exploring Flexbox Dev Tools in Chrome 39:14 Adjusting the colors of letter grids using Inspect Element 40:40 Making text bold with font-weight 41:04 Hint on how to approach formatting the keyboard
In final installment of this four-part series, RStudio’s Nick Strayer walks through using CSS to stylize our Shiny Wordle app.
Code + word list: https://github.com/wch/shiny-wordle Check out the full Shiny app here: https://winston.shinyapps.io/wordle/ You can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Nick Strayer (@NicholasStrayer) Animation, design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi) Music: Lakal by Blue Dot Sessions
Wordle: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
Barret Schloerke || {reactlog} Rundown || RStudio
00:00 Introduction to Reactlog 00:44 Viewing Reactlog using an Old Faithful Shiny app 02:07 The Reactlog interface 04:31 Walking through a reactive graph with Reactlog 05:14 Downstream dependency invalidation in Shiny 06:43 How Shiny “grabs” data 09:41 How the Reactlog timeline works 10:46 Switching between idle states in Reactlog 11:58 Reactlog interactivity - clicking a single item 13:21 Reactlog with the Pythagoras Theorem app 15:45 Adding a UI and server value to add Reactlog to your Shiny app 18:05 Walking through the reactive graph using the Pythagorean Theorem app 21:07 Append-only behavior of Reactlog 21:18 Marking a time point in Reactlog 23:17 Using Reactlog to debug reactivity 26:55 Resetting our app and testing logic changes 28:01 Reactlog with a large Shiny app, CRANwhales 34:10 Freezing reactive values 36:19 Calculating click count in a Shiny app 37:10 Click the button, render the plot is bad - see why
Shiny is an R package from RStudio that makes it incredibly easy to build interactive web applications with R. Behind the scenes, Shiny builds a reactive graph that can quickly become intertwined and difficult to debug. reactlog provides a visual insight into that black box of Shiny reactivity.
After logging the reactive interactions of a Shiny application, reactlog constructs a directed dependency graph of the Shiny’s reactive state at any time point in the record. The reactlog dependency graph provides users with the ability to visually see if reactive elements are:
- Not utilized (never retrieved)
- Over utilized (called independently many times)
- Interacting with unexpected elements
- Invalidating all expected dependencies
- Freezing (and thawing), preventing triggering of future reactivity
There are many subtle features hidden throughout reactlog. Here is a short list quickly describing what is possible within reactlog:
- Display the reactivity dependency graph of your Shiny applications
- Navigate throughout your reactive history to replay element interactions
- Highlight reactive family trees
- Filter on reactive family trees
- Search for reactive elements
You can read more about reactlog here: https://rstudio.github.io/reactlog/articles/reactlog.html And you can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Barret Schloerke (@schloerke) Design & editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Winston Chang || Part III: Adding a Keyboard to a Wordle Shiny App || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:25 Setting up a keyboard 00:54 Using an HTML p tag to print out letter indicators 01:56 Back to our keyboard! 03:44 Setting up a search and replace 06:32 Removing letters using regular expressions 08:43 Making guesses a reactiveVal() 11:00 Avoiding an infinite loop with reactiveVal()
In Part III of this four-part series, Winston walks through how to build a keyboard in a Shiny Wordle app.
Code + word list: https://github.com/wch/shiny-wordle Check out the full Shiny app here: https://winston.shinyapps.io/wordle/ You can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Developer (@winston_chang) Animation, design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Wordle: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
Daniel Petzold || RStudio Team: Building and Sharing Jupyter Notebooks || RStudio
Learn more about RStudio Team here. https://www.rstudio.com/products/team/
Find the code for this example here. https://github.com/danielpetzold/space-tracker Read our blog post here. https://www.rstudio.com/blog/build-and-share-jupyter-notebooks-on-rstudio-team/
Timecodes 0:00 - Intro 0:07 - Build Jupyter Notebooks to analyze and visualize data 2:47 - Publish directly from RStudio Workbench to your content hub 5:13 - Share With Your Stakeholders on RStudio Connect
Jupyter Notebooks are interactive documents for code, outputs, and text. However, they’re often stuck in data scientists’ local computing environments. Collaborating can be difficult and sharing can be tedious. To live up to their fullest potential, data science teams need a way to scale their development securely and efficiently — while providing stakeholders easy access to their output and visualizations.
RStudio Team, made up of RStudio Workbench, RStudio Connect, and RStudio Package Manager, brings everything together to help data scientists create, reproduce, and share insights from their Jupyter Notebooks.
Let’s dive into a real-life example by exploring data from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). Daniel Petzold walks us through his data analysis and reporting. Want to explore the report yourself? Check out the published report on RStudio Connect here. https://colorado.rstudio.com/rsc/space-tracker/space_tracker.html
On RStudio Workbench, you have a choice of editors: the RStudio IDE, JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, or VS Code. Choose your preference. From here, you can explore your dataset, embed HTML directly in your document, create visualizations, and more.
Once you’ve run your analyses and created insightful visualizations, you want to be able to share them with your team. RStudio Workbench allows you to publish to RStudio Connect, the content platform from RStudio.
You have multiple options: push-button deployment from Jupyter Notebook or using terminal commands from JupyterLab.
It’s not enough to publish your work. Once on RStudio Connect, you can share with end-users. Make your analysis accessible to specific users or more generally with different authentication measures. In addition, you can schedule the document to run at a certain time and send out an email with refreshed data.
Click the links below to learn more about these offerings.
RStudio Workbench: https://www.rstudio.com/products/workbench/
RStudio Connect: https://www.rstudio.com/products/connect/
Winston Chang || Part II: Handling Duplicate Letters in a Shiny Wordle App || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:52 Setting up the problem with duplicate letters 02:08 Coding the first pass for exact matches in the correct position 06:29 Re-evaluating how to approach the problem 12:28 Removing only one instance of a letter 13:56 Testing our code 14:54 Setting up the second pass 19:08 Scoping with a double arrow 19:52 Debugging with a browser() statement 21:28 Checking our code
In Part II of this four-part series, Winston walks through how to handle duplicate letters when building your Shiny Wordle app.
Code + word list: https://github.com/wch/shiny-wordle Check out the full Shiny app here: https://winston.shinyapps.io/wordle/ You can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Developer (@winston_chang) Animation, design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Wordle: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
Winston Chang || Part I: Build a Basic Wordle App with Shiny || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:12 What is Wordle? 00:36 The Wordle app we’ll build by the end of this four-part series 01:08 How to approach the problem 01:38 Word list (link to file below) 01:52 UI function with fluidPage() 02:24 Print out what player guesses using verbatimTextOutput() 03:36 Run app in Viewer Panel 04:04 Adding an action button with actionButton() 04:29 Using bindEvent() with actionButton() 06:02 Limiting guesses to words with five characters 07:40 Using req() and cancelOutput() 08:54 Incorporating the word list 10:13 Matching player guess to word list 11:06 Matching player guess to target word 13:50 Writing a function to match guess to target word with feedback 18:15 Checking word length between guess and target 23:02 Why we’re using intermediary functions 28:51 Printing formatted letter information
In Part I of this four-part series, Winston walks through how to build a basic Wordle app using Shiny!
Code + word list: https://github.com/wch/shiny-wordle Check out the full Shiny app here: https://winston.shinyapps.io/wordle/ You can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Developer (@winston_chang) Animation, design, and editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
Wordle: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
Rich Iannone || Making Beautiful Tables with {gt} || RStudio
00:00 Introduction 00:37 Adding a title with tab_header() (using Markdown!) 01:47 Adding a subtitle 02:48 Aligning table headers with opt_align_table_header() 03:48 Using {dplyr} with {gt} 06:03 Create a table stub with rowname_col() 07:35 Customizing column labels with col_label() 09:45 Formatting table numbers with fmt_number() 12:10 Adjusting column width with cols_width() 15:39 Adding source notes with tab_source_note() 16:55 Adding footnotes with tab_footnote() 18:55 Customizing footnote marks with opt_footnote_marks() 19:10 Demo of how easy managing multiple footnotes is with {gt} 23:41 Customizing cell styles with tab_style() 27:07 Adding label text to the stubhead with tab_stubhead() 28:15 Changing table font with opt_table_font() 29:25 Automatically scaling cell color based on value using data_color()
With the gt package, anyone can make wonderful-looking tables using the R programming language. The gt philosophy: we can construct a wide variety of useful tables with a cohesive set of table parts. These include the table header, the stub, the column labels and spanner column labels, the table body, and the table footer.
It all begins with table data (be it a tibble or a data frame). You then decide how to compose your gt table with the elements and formatting you need for the task at hand. Finally, the table is rendered by printing it at the console, including it in an R Markdown document, or exporting to a file using gtsave(). Currently, gt supports the HTML, LaTeX, and RTF output formats.
The gt package is designed to be both straightforward yet powerful. The emphasis is on simple functions for the everyday display table needs.
You can read more about gt here: https://gt.rstudio.com/articles/intro-creating-gt-tables.html And you can learn more about Shiny here: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
Got questions? The RStudio Community site is a great place to get assistance: https://community.rstudio.com/
Content: Rich Iannone (@riannone) Design & editing: Jesse Mostipak (@kierisi)
An inclusive solution for teaching and learning R during the COVID pandemic
The COVID pandemic has shaken our teaching and learning approaches in many different ways all over the world.
Nonetheless, it has also provided opportunities for bringing creativity into the classroom.
In this talk, I will discuss how I have used RStudio Cloud in my teaching during the pandemic and how I capitalized on the opportunities that RStudio Cloud offers to deal with the crucial issues of software installation.
Introducing RStudio Cloud in the units has allowed me to work effectively in an online environment to engage, motivate and empower students through their learning process while removing the troubles and hurdles of software installation which is generally particularly challenging in first-year cohorts without prior coding experience.
I used RStudio Cloud in a data science introductory unit at Monash University and as a tool to present the usage of R and RStudio for reproducible reporting in another unit on Reproducible and Collaborative Practises.
In the latter, I introduced RStudio Cloud during the first few weeks to get the students up to speed before transitioning to using R and RStudio Cloud in their own local machines while using the command line interface, Git, and GitHub as a version control tool for reproducible reporting.
I will also discuss how I organized and managed the unit’s RStudio Cloud account so that my research associates were also an integral part of the unit delivery to ensure the success of the units.
Read Dr. Menéndez’s guest post on the RStudio Blog: https://www.rstudio.com/blog/rstudio-cloud-an-inclusive-solution-for-learning-r/
Read more in the follow-up blog post: https://www.rstudio.com/blog/teaching-data-science-in-the-cloud/
To Our Community: Thank You | RStudio Open Source (2021)
This year, among many challenges, we have been so grateful for our community who have continued to show up in so many different ways. As the year comes to a close, we wanted to say thank you. We know folks have adjusted where they spend their time and energy, and we just want to say thank you for continuing to be here and learn together, wherever you are right now.
Thank you to our maintainers. Our package maintainers not only contribute code, but also steward projects, welcome new contributors, and answer many questions. Thank you for continuing to set a positive tone and fostering a positive community for our contributors and users!
Thank you to our contributors. Package contributors contribute code, ideas, conversation, documentation, and tests. You are the ones trying things out, figuring out what’s wrong, and sharing ideas and fixes. Thank you for pushing our code to grow and evolve and to help ever more people!
Thank you to our educators. Educators work in classrooms, with friends and colleagues, and respond to email lists from someone around the world. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for data science with others and expanding the group of people who make sense of data with code!
Thank you to everyone who’s used R to solve a problem, create aRt, write a blog post, share insights or any of the thousands of ways we can create with R. Thank you to all of you who have contributed in some way, no matter how big or small. Without you, there would be no point to writing open source code. Thank you for all the work you do in the world, using data to improve our lives and our knowledge of the world in such incredibly diverse ways.
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Leveraging the Cloud for Analytics Instruction at Scale: Challenges and Opportunities
Data science and programming languages like R and Python are some of the most in demand skills in the world.
Students interested in analytics and professors facilitating curriculums deserve to use industry-leading tools to acquire these skills.
However, it’s challenging to enable this experience in an educational setting, especially at scale.
The traditional tools to facilitate learning analytics simply aren’t great. Students and professors often spend way too much time troubleshooting systems and software, things that are a complete waste of time and detract from the learning experience. Additionally, there are seemingly endless IT hurdles and requirements.
That’s part of the reason we created RStudio Cloud, a brilliantly simple but powerful solution for teaching and learning analytics, especially at scale. RStudio Cloud solves many of the technical and financial challenges associated with teaching analytics. It’s also a joy to use for professors, students, and IT administrators.
In this presentation, Dr. Brian Anderson will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with leveraging the cloud to deliver analytics instructions at the undergraduate and graduate levels at scale.
Our hope is that you walk away inspired to think about ways you can leverage RStudio and the Cloud to enhance your students’ experiences with learning analytics.
Read more in the follow-up blog post: https://www.rstudio.com/blog/teaching-data-science-in-the-cloud/
RStudio Team Deep Dive | In A Hosted Environment
You probably know that RStudio makes a free, open-source development environment for data scientists. It’s made with love and used by millions of people around the world.
What you might not know is that we also make a professional platform, called RStudio Team.
In this Live Session, Tom will walk you through our Rstudio Team Trial, where you can learn how to best test drive….
- Scaling your data science work
- Seamlessly managing open-source data science environments
- Automate repetitive tasks
- Rapidly share key insights and data science products securely to your entire organization.
- And, optionally integrate some of your favorite open-source packages into the trial experience
Leading organizations like NASA, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, The World Health Organization, financial institutions, government agencies and insurance organizations around the globe use RStudio’s professional products to tackle world-changing problems and we’re inviting you to learn how. You’ll learn how RStudio Team gives professional data science teams superpowers, with all of the bells and whistles that enterprises need.
If you don’t have your own trial instance of Rstudio Team to follow along (not required), feel free to request yours here: https://www.rstudio.com/products/team/evaluation3/
Additional resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HGt7LSohhyxpCvETvVEFHugrdaSnTcZaXbI0jV5g9ok/edit?usp=sharing
Building R packages with devtools and usethis | RStudio
Package building doesn’t have to be scary! The tidyverse team has made it easy to get started with RStudio and the devtools/usethis packages. This hour long presentation will walk you through the basics of R package building, and hopefully leave you prepared to go out and build your own package!
Slides: https://colorado.rstudio.com/rsc/pkg-building/ Source Code: https://github.com/jthomasmock/pkg-building
devtools: https://devtools.r-lib.org/ usethis: https://usethis.r-lib.org/ R Packages book: https://r-pkgs.org/index.html
RStudio Team Demo | Build & Share Data Products Like The World’s Leading Companies
You probably know that RStudio makes a free, open-source development environment for data scientists. It’s made with love and used by millions of people around the world.
What you might not know is that we also make a professional platform, called RStudio Team.
Learn How RStudio Team Can…
- Help you scale your data science work
- Seamlessly manage open-source data science environments
- Automate repetitive tasks
- And, rapidly share key insights and data science products securely to your entire organization.
Timecodes 0:00 - Intro 4:18 - Hard truth of data science 10:22 - Serious Data Science 16:46 - Model management with R and Python 18:48 - Live Demo / RStudio Workbench 23:09 - RStudio support for Jupyter Notebooks 24:40 - Live Demo / RStudio Connect 28:01 - RStudio support for VS Code 30:05 - R and Python within RStudio 32:33 - Scale and share data science results 36:55 - Sharing previous versions of presentations 38:16 - Data Science team knowledge sharing 40:36 - Scheduling snd emailing data science content 43:55 - Live demo / RStudio Package Manager 48:09 - Data Science stories 49:37 - RStudio Team 52:59 - What makes RStudio different? 55:12 - Q/A - Learn More
Leading organizations like NASA, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, The World Health Organization, financial institutions, government agencies and insurance organizations around the globe use RStudio’s professional products to tackle world-changing problems and we’re inviting you to learn how. You’ll learn how RStudio Team gives professional data science teams superpowers, with all of the bells and whistles that enterprises need.
You can try RStudio Team free here: https://www.rstudio.com/products/team/evaluation2/
If you’d like to access presentation slides, sign up for future events, provide feedback and/or ask additional questions we’ve bundled everything together for you here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HGt7LSohhyxpCvETvVEFHugrdaSnTcZaXbI0jV5g9ok/edit?usp=sharing
R Markdown Advanced Tips to Become a Better Data Scientist & RStudio Connect | With Tom Mock
R Markdown is an incredible tool for being a more effective data scientist. It lets you share insights in ways that delight end users.
In this presentation, Tom Mock will teach you some advanced tips that will let you get the most out of R Markdown. Additionally, RStudio Connect will be highlighted, specifically how it works wonderfully with tools like R Markdown.
Please provide feedback: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOwz3yJluPR2fEqE0hBt92NtKZzzNACR8KJhHUt9rhFj3HqA/viewform?usp=sf_link
More resources if you’re interested: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VKGs1G9GcQcv4pCYFbK68_LDh72ODiZsIxXLN0z-zD4/edit
04:15 Literate Programming 09:00 - Rstudio Visual Editor Demo 15:44 - R and python in same document via {reticulate} 18:10 - Q&A: Options for collaborative editing (version control, shared drive etc.) 19:30 - Q&A: Multi-pane support in Rstudio 20:46 Data Product (reports, presentations, dashboards, websites etc.) 24:15 - Distill article 26:27 - Xaringan presentation (add three dashes — for new slide) 28:58 - Flexdashboard (with shiny) 30:30 - Crosstalk (talk between different html widgets instead of {shiny} server) 35:03 - Q&A: Jobs panel – parallelise render jobs in background 36:50 - Q&A: various data product packages, formats 39:35 Control Document (modularise data science tasks, control code flow) 39:58 - Knit with Parameters (YAML params: option) 41:20 - Reference named chunks from .R files (knitr::read_chunk()) 43:00 - Child Documents (reuse content, conditional inclusion, {blastula} email) 47:07 Templating (don’t repeat yourself) 47:38 - rmarkdown::render() with params, looping through different param combinations 49:30 - Loop templates within a single document 50:40 - 04-templating/ live code demo 54:37 - {whisker} vs {glue} – {{logic-less}} vs {logic templating} 55:30 - {whisker} for generating markdown files that you can continue editing 57:49 RMarkdown + Rstudio Connect 1:00:41 Follow-up Reading and resources 1:04:49 Q&A - {shiny} apps, {webshot2} for screenshots of html, reading in multiple .R files, best practice for producing MSoffice files, {blastula}
How to Prioritize Projects | Data Science Hangout Highlights
RStudio is joined by Moody Hadi, Manager of New Product Development and Financial Engineering at S&P Intelligence, to discuss how data scientists can become leaders within their organizations.
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Data Science Hangout | Moody Hadi at S&P Global | Unlocking Business Value with Data Science
We want to help data science leaders become better.
The Data Science Hangout is a weekly, free-to-join open conversation for current and aspiring data science leaders.
An accomplished leader in the space will join us each week and answer whatever questions the audience may have.
We were recently joined by Moody Hadi, Manager of New Product Development and Financial Engineering at S&P Intelligence
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The Importance of Understanding Your Business Users | Data Science Hangout Highlights
RStudio is joined by Tori Oblad, Data Officer at WaFd bank, to discuss how data scientists can become leaders within their organizations.
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Dr. Julia Silge | RStudio Voices | RStudio
Julia Silge recently sat down with Michael Demsko Jr for an interview, the first in a new Voices of RStudio PBC series.
In this excerpt, Julia discusses where she sees the most value created in the data science lifecycle–and it’s not advanced machine learning models.
Read the full interview at https://blog.rstudio.com/tags/rstudio-voices/
Measuring the Impact of Data Science | Data Science Hangout Highlights
RStudio is joined by Frank Corrigan, Director of Decision Intelligence, to discuss how data scientists can become leaders within their organizations.
Watch the full recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBs4b3Q2n8Y
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Teaching and learning with RStudio Cloud | RStudio
Learn about RStudio Cloud and most recent developments, particularly with respect to teaching with it.
Slides are posted at https://rstd.io/tl-rscloud .
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
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Make Sure You Communicate Value | Data Science Hangout Highlights
RStudio is joined by Tori Oblad, Data Officer at WaFd bank, to discuss how data scientists can become leaders within their organizations.
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Data Scientists vs. Business Analysts | Data Science Hangout Highlights
RStudio is joined by Frank Corrigan, Director of Decision Intelligence, to discuss how data scientists can become leaders within their organizations.
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Data Science Hangout | Frank Corrigan, Target | Understanding the Impact of Data Science
We want to help data science leaders become better.
The Data Science Hangout is a weekly, free-to-join open conversation for current and aspiring data science leaders.
An accomplished leader in the space will join us each week and answer whatever questions the audience may have.
We were recently joined by Frank Corrigan, Director of Decision Intelligence at Target.
6:38 - Problem formation - trying to find the unknown unknowns and bringing them to the business
8:20 - Integrating your data science team into your company’s business objectives (ex. newsletter)
10:50 - What is the divide between a business analyst and a data scientist, in your eyes? How business analysts and data scientists differ
15:32 - What is the biggest mistake you’ve made in your role and what did you learn from this mistake?
19:15 - Onboarding new team members effectively
25:00 - The importance of motivating non-data scientists
26:42 - Resources for data scientists
32:30 - Challenges when using different tools across a data science team
49:28 - Analytical thinking vs critical thinking skills
57:30 - Embracing the 80/20 Rule & the importance of Focus Time
1:02:48 - Two frameworks to be more effective with stakeholders
1:06:47 - Rebranding to “decision intelligence”
1:08:35 - Quantitatively measuring impact from data science insights
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RStudio Cloud | Viewing Learning Work | Instructor View
As an Admin (or Moderator) of your course space, you and your fellow instructors have access to all projects in your space. You can open student projects from any projects listing, or to see all the projects of a given student, go to their profile page by clicking on their name from the Members page.
Note that if you do open a student’s project while they also have it open, they will be temporarily disconnected from the project.
You can also view how much time your students have spent using Cloud. Simply visit the Usage area of your space, where you can see aggregate usage data for the entire class, or for an individual student and their projects.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
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RStudio Cloud | Tuning Resources | Instructor View
By default, each project is allocated 1 GB of RAM and 1 CPU, and can execute in the background for up to 1 hour. If your plan allows it, you can increase the memory, CPU or background execution time allocated to a project. To do so, open Project settings, go to the Resources panel and adjust the allocation.
Note that copies of a project will inherit its resource settings. However, the effective allocation for the copy will be limited by the maxiumum allowed by the account that “owns” the new copy.
The usage hours consumed by a project in a given amount of time depend on the resources allocated to the project, according to the following formula: (RAM + CPUs allocated) / 2 x hours.
On disk, each project is allocated up to 20GB for its files, data, and packages.
The maximum size of a file that can be uploaded to a project is 500MB.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
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RStudio Cloud | Troubleshooting | Instructor View
Relaunch Project If you are working on a project, and it fails to load or becomes completely unresponsive, you can relaunch the project. Depending on the underlying problem, relaunching the project may fix it and let you continue.
Allocate Additional Memory memory-gaugeRunning out of memory while working on a project may be the cause of a variety of errors.
The project memory gauge will give you an idea of what percentage of available memory your project is currently using. The gauge updates roughly every ten seconds, so it may not show the exact usage at the current moment. Note that reclaiming unused memory is controlled by R and the operating system - you may see uncanny fluctuations in the gauge as the system manages memory.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
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RStudio Cloud | Setting Up a Base Project | Instructor View
You can make all projects in a space begin with a default set of files and packages. You do this by defining a Base Project for the space.
Create a new project and add any packages or files you want all projects created in the space to start with. Set the project’s access so that everyone in the space can view the project.
Go to the Space Settings page and select the project as the Base Project. Once you select a project as your Base Project, it will no longer be included in the projects listing for the space. To access it, choose the Edit command from the Space Settings page.
Changes to the Base Project are not retroactive. Changes will not be applied to any projects already created - the changes will only apply to future projects created via the New Project action.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio
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RStudio Cloud | Roles | Instructor View
Each member of a space is assigned a role to determine what they are able to do within the space. The available roles are:
Admin: can manage users, view, edit and manage all projects and view space usage data.
Moderator: can view, edit and manage all projects, and view space usage data.
Contributor: can create, edit and manage their own projects. This is the default.
Viewer: can view projects shared with everyone in the space. A viewer cannot create or save copies of projects.
Members are assigned an initial role when they are invited to or join a space, but roles can be changed by an Admin at any time. When you invite an individual member to a Invitation Required space, you set the initial role in the Add Member dialog box. When someone joins via a sharing link, their initial role is set to the current Initial Role setting in the members options panel. Admins can update a user’s role via the role selector in the members list.
Changing permissions lets you fine-tune the Contributor and Viewer roles. The permissions are:
Contributors can see the members list: enables Contributors to see who can access the space.
Contributors can make their projects visible to all members: enables Contributors to share their projects with everyone in the space.
Contributors can change project resources: enables Contributors to change RAM and CPU settings on their projects.
Viewers can see the members list: enables Viewers to see who can acess the space.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rstudiopbc/
And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rstudio-pbc/
RStudio Cloud | Reusing a Workspace | Instructor View
One approach to reusing a space is to remove the current cohort of students from the space, and reuse the same space with the next cohort. If you are an Admin of a space, you can remove any member from that space.
Go to the Members area of the space. For the member you would like to remove, press the Delete icon. You will be prompted to confirm that you would like to remove them from the space, and to choose whether to leave their projects behind in the space, or move them to their personal space.
You can also remove members programatically via the Cloud API using the rscloud package.
Another option is to create a new space from your current course space using the Copy Space action.
If you’d like to re-use materials from a space, e.g. to teach a new cohort of students, use the Copy Space command. All projects shared with everyone in the original space will be copied over to the new space. Members of the original space are not copied over - you will be the only initial member of the new space.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rstudiopbc/
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RStudio Cloud | Project Types | Instructor View
A project is the fundamental unit of work on RStudio Cloud. It encapsulates your R code, packages and data files and provides isolation from other analyses. If you are familiar with projects in the desktop RStudio IDE, an RStudio Cloud project is the same thing, plus some additional metadata for access and sharing.
To create a new project from scratch, simply press the New Project button from the Projects area. Your new project will open in the RStudio IDE.
To create a new project from an existing git repository, press the down arrow on the right side of the New Project button, and choose ‘New Project from Git Repo’ from the menu that appears. Note that your git credentials need to be entered each time you create a new project and are only cached for 15 minutes by default.
To create a Jupyter Project, press the down arrow on the right side of the New Project button, and choose ‘New Jupyter Project’ from the menu that appears.
A new Jupyter project will be created and deployed. Once deployed, you will see the Jupyter hub tree view with a welcome.ipynb notebook that contains information about getting started with Jupyter.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rstudiopbc/
And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rstudio-pbc/
RStudio Cloud | Overview | Instructor View
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rstudiopbc/
And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rstudio-pbc/
RStudio Cloud | Inviting Co-instructors and Teaching Assistants | Instructor View
After creating a space, go to the Members area to manage its membership. You can add members to your space in three ways:
To add members one by one, choose the Invitation Required option, and send invitations to each person you’d like to add to the space via the Add Member button. Note that for security reasons, the invitation is good for 7 days from the time that it is sent. To allow many people to join the space, choose the Sharing Link option, copy the sharing link and then share that link with all the people you’d like to join the space, either via an email or by posting the link on a web page. Keep in mind that anyone with that link will be able to join your space. If you would like to disable a link you previously shared, choose Reset Sharing Link; this will prevent any additional people from joining the space using that link. Space membership can also be managed programatically. See API Access from R in the Advanced Topics section below for details.
Note that you can switch the access option at any time - a common approach is to initially set the access option to Sharing Link, post the sharing link, then after all the people you want to join the space initially have done so, switch access to Invitation Only. The original sharing link will no longer allow additional people to join the space, but you can add any new members individually.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rstudiopbc/
And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rstudio-pbc/
RStudio Cloud | Invite Learners | Instructor View
As you did to invite your co-instructors, go to the space’s Members area to invite your students to your course space. The easiest approach is to enable access via a sharing link.
- Click on the Sharing link option in the Access section
- Set the Initial Role to Contributor
- Click on the Copy Sharing Link action
You can then distribute the sharing link to all your students via a course web page or email. Once all your students have joined the space, you can either reset the sharing link (which will disable access via the previous sharing link), or set Access to “Invitation Required” to ensure that nobody joins the class later without your permission. See the Members section in Shared Spaces above for more details and alternate methods for adding students to your space.
Note that each student must have their own RStudio Cloud account. When they attempt to access your course space for the first time, they will be prompted to log in, or to sign up for an account if they don’t already have one. If your organization is using SSO, account creation will happen automatically when they log in the first time.
At this point, you and your students should be all set.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rstudiopbc/
And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rstudio-pbc/
RStudio Cloud | Exporting Projects | Instructor View
The contents of a project can be downloaded without opening the project.
Press the Export action to the right of the project that you wish to download.
A dialog box will appear showing the progress of your export. The process can take anywhere from a few seconds to a couple of minutes, depending on the size of the project, and how recently it was opened.
Once the export is complete, press the Download button in the dialog box to download your project.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rstudiopbc/
And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rstudio-pbc/
RStudio Cloud | Creating an Assignment | Instructor View
A good way to create assignments for your students is to make a project for each assignment, and populate it with the files and packages you would like each student to have when they begin the assignment. When you are ready to reveal an assignment to your students, open the project and do the following:
- Click on the Project Settings button (the gear in the upper right)
- Select the Access panel
- Set the project access so it can be viewed by everyone in the space
- Check “Make this project an assignment”
When the student opens an assignment project (either via the projects listing, or via a direct link to the project), RStudio Cloud will automatically make a copy for them. To convey this special behavior, assignments are displayed a bit differently, both for you and for your students.
You can see the students’ copies of the assignment by clicking on the “View n derived projects” link that will appear with your original project.
Note that changes you make to the original assignment will not be applied to any student copies already created. The changes will only apply to future copies of the assignment.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstudio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rstudiopbc/
And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rstudio-pbc/
RStudio Cloud | {rscloud} Package | Instructor View
You can access RStudio Cloud’s API to manage space members programatically using the rscloud package.
You will need to create client credentials to use the package. To do so, click on your icon/name in the header to reveal the User panel, then click on Credentials. This will take you to the Credentials page of RStudio User Settings, where you can create and manage your client credentials.
{rscloud} package repo: https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
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Posit Cloud | Creating a Shared Space | Instructor View
A shared space is an area where a group of people can collaborate together - only the members of a shared space can access the space and its contents.
To create a shared space, go to the navigation sidebar (click the menu icon at the upper left if needed) and choose New Space, then follow the on-screen instructions.
ABOUT RSTUDIO CLOUD: RStudio Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online.
Analyze your data using the RStudio IDE, directly from your browser. Share projects with your team, class, workshop or the world. Teach data science with R to your students or colleagues. Learn data science in an instructor-led environment or with interactive tutorials.
There is nothing to configure and no dedicated hardware, installation or annual purchase contract required. Individual users, instructors and students only need a browser to do, share, teach and learn data science.
We will always offer a free plan for casual, individual use, and we now offer paid premium plans for professionals, instructors, researchers, and organizations.
RSTUDIO CLOUD RESOURCES: RStudio Cloud https://rstudio.cloud RStudio Cloud Pricing plans https://rstudio.cloud/plans/instructor RStudio Cloud guide https://rstudio.cloud/learn/guide {rscloud} https://github.com/rstudio/rscloud
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ABOUT RSTUDIO: RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com
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Data Science Hangout | Tori Oblad, WaFd Bank | Getting Executives to Support Data Science
We want to help data science leaders become better.
The Data Science Hangout is a weekly, free-to-join open conversation for current and aspiring data science leaders.
An accomplished leader in the space will join us each week and answer whatever questions the audience may have.
We were recently joined by Tori Oblad, Enterprise Data & Analytics Officer at WaFd Bank.
Here are a few snippets from our conversation: 1:14 - Start of session 3:00 - How to build an internal data science community 11:40 - Showing the art of the possible 14:00 - How do you get others to lead topics and foster engagement? 26:17 - Writing starter scripts for new users 35:55 - When to use R or Python versus BI 36:38 - Building toy models in Excel to explain it to people / to build relationships with business 38:33 - Avoiding vendor lock-in, being technology agnostic 43:35 - How to build confidence with IT and compliance 49:15 - Working with business users and creating business value 53:21 - Getting business and executive support 1:22:30 - What data scientists should focus on when communicating with stakeholders: value
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How to Improve Your Communication Skills | Data Science Hangout Highlights
RStudio is joined by Elaine McVey, VP of Data Science at The Looma Project, to discuss how data scientists can become leaders within their organizations.
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How to Communicate Value | Data Science Hangout Highlights
RStudio is joined by Jonathan Regenstein, Head of Data and Quantamental Research at Truist Securities, to discuss how data scientists can become leaders within their organizations.
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How to Speak to Executives | Data Science Hangout Highlights
RStudio is joined by Elaine McVey, VP of Data Science at The Looma Project, to discuss how data scientists can become leaders within their organizations.
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Data Science Hangout | Jonathan Regenstein, Truist | Relationships with IT and Non-Data Scientists
We want to help data science leaders become better.
The Data Science Hangout is a weekly, free-to-join open conversation for current and aspiring data science leaders.
An accomplished leader in the space will join us each week and answer whatever questions the audience may have.
We were recently joined by Jonathan Regenstein, Head of Data and Quantamental Research at Truist Securities.
Working with IT and building relationships was a focus in our conversation with Jonathan and he included a few tips for building relationships with non-data scientist colleagues.
Find a partner within the IT organization and talk to that person at least once a week. IT can help you communicate value proposition along the way as well.
“It sounds crazy to say this in the world of data science, but relationship building was critical to what we did, especially at a bank. Thousands of request for new technology. There’s no way to avoid going through all the security scans and check marks that we have to go through. We want to make sure we have a good partner who is going to help us do that”
0:48 - Start of session 10:52 - How should data science leaders work with IT? 46:20 - How far out Data Science Leaders should be planning projects with IT 48:20 - How do you become a champion of data science within your organization? 1:02:11 - Your responsibility as a data science leader is to work cross functionally 1:04:17 - Data Science Leaders: Your business cares about the value, not how you got there.
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Data Science Hangout | Elaine McVey at the Looma Project | Communicating the Value of Data Science
The Data Science Hangout is a weekly, free-to-join open conversation for current and aspiring data science leaders.
An accomplished leader in the space will join us each week and answer whatever questions the audience may have.
We were recently joined by Elaine McVey, VP of Data Science at the Looma Project.
21:30 - How to approach experimentation and running tests 43:30 - How do you communicate the value of data science to executives 52:40 - Ways to improve your communication skills as a data scientist 57:15 - How to package insights to executives 1:01:03 - What data scientists get wrong when communicating insights
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Nicolas Nguyen - ZEISS | Supply Chain Management Meetup | RStudio
0 - 50:20 Presentation 50:20 - 56:52 Q&A Presentation by Nicolas Nguyen, Digital Supply Chain and Global S&OP Leader for Carl Zeiss Meditec
Abstract: In demand & supply planning, we often need to calculate projected inventories and replenishment plans - sometimes for hundreds or thousands of SKUs, and through different levels of the distribution network.
In the sales & operations planning (S&OP) process, we might need to run some scenarios to balance demand and supply to support sales: changing inventories plans, sales plans, delivery lead times, production plans, product mix, etc.
Using Shiny, we can design simple, powerful, scalable, and reproducible apps for demand & supply planning as well as the S&OP process. In this talk, you will learn about real-life examples of web applications, which can be deployed in a few minutes to perform some popular demand & supply planning operations.
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Thank you to Nicolas for an awesome presentation on how he is using Shiny today. With all the interest from the community in this topic, we’d love to continue the discussion and connect us all through:
Future meetups: https://www.meetup.com/RStudio-Enterprise-Community-Meetup/ R for Data Science Online Learning Community (“chat-supply_chain”): r4ds.io/join RStudio Community: community.rstudio.com
Katherine Kopp | COVID vaccine distribution Shiny app walkthrough (mock data) | RStudio
Learn more:
Data Driven West Virginia: https://business.wvu.edu/research-outreach/data-driven-wv
DDWV PPE forecasting: https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2020/04/27/wvu-business-experts-partner-with-the-national-guard-to-forecast-ppe-needs
DDWV inventory management system: https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2021/03/22/a-different-kind-of-science-wvu-chambers-college-data-scientists-propel-west-virginia-s-acclaimed-vaccine-strategy-with-digital-inventory-management-system
West Virginia National Guard: https://www.wv.ng.mil/
Shiny: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
West Virginia leading nation at start of vaccine rollout: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2021/3/4/22313540/covid-19-vaccine-west-virginia
To understand just how hard it is to get vaccines to the population, it helps to understand where it can go wrong. This starts with how vaccines are packed into containers.
To fill up a container, Pfizer places 195 vials into a tray, and up to 5 trays into a single container. Moderna puts 10 vials into a small box, and then combines a minimum of 10 small boxes into a single container. In most states Pfizer and Moderna ship directly to the organization that will be administering the vaccine to the population. This could be a hospital, a pharmacy, or any place where trained professionals will be putting shots into arms.
But what happens when a pharmacy receives a full container from Pfizer, 975 vials, but only needs 600?
West Virginia has removed this complication by shipping directly to five hubs strategically located throughout the state. Within each of these hubs, containers of vaccine vials are broken down into smaller components and then either picked up or shipped directly to the hospital, pharmacy, or organization that will be administering the vaccine.
These hubs are managed by the Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF), a team of teams composed of public, private, and governmental organizations as well as the National Guard. The Joint Interagency Task Force is responsible for drawing up a weekly distribution plan for each hub, in alignment with CDC allocations, and matching vaccine supply with demand.
By using a statewide system managed by a central organization, there’s a level of agility and fluidity that allows each hub to adjust to a variety of changes in order to maximize the number of vaccines that are being administered to the population each week.
RStudio’s mission is to create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication to enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone, regardless of economic means, and to facilitate collaboration and reproducible research, both of which are critical to the integrity and efficacy of work across industries.
RStudio also produces RStudio Team, a modular platform of commercial software products that give organizations the confidence to adopt R, Python and other open-source data science software at scale, along with online services to make it easier to learn and use them over the web.
Together, RStudio’s open-source software and commercial software form a virtuous cycle: the adoption of open-source data science software at scale in organizations creates demand for RStudio’s commercial software; and the revenue from commercial software, in turn, enables deeper investment in the open-source software that benefits everyone. Check out www.rstudio.com .
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Julia Silge | Monitoring Model Performance | RStudio
0:00 Project introduction 1:50 Overview of the setup code chunk 3:05 Getting new data 4:05 Getting model from RStudio Connect using httr and jsonlite 6:20 Bringing in metrics 9:45 Using the pins package 10:50 Using boards on RStudio Connect 13:30 Benefits of using pins 14:00 Visualizations using ggplot and plotly 17:00 Knitting the flexdashboard 18:10 Project takeaways
You can read Julia’s blogpost, Model Monitoring with R Markdown, pins, and RStudio Connect, here: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/04/08/model-monitoring-with-r-markdown/
Modelops playground GitHub repo: https://github.com/juliasilge/modelops-playground
pins package documentation: https://pins.rstudio.com/
flexdashboard documentation: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/flexdashboard/
tidymodels documentation: https://www.tidymodels.org/
Tom Mock | RStudio Connect in Production
https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/rstudio-connect-in-production/
In part 2 of this 3 part series, Tom covers: Communicating results can be the most challenging part of Data Science: many insights never leave the laptops where they are discovered. In this webinar, we will show you how to use RStudio Connect to deploy your results in a production environment. You’ll learn how to automate publishing, schedule updates, and provide consumers with self-service access to your work. RStudio Connect is a revolutionary new way to host executable Data Science content.
About Tom: Thomas is involved in the local and global data science community, serving as Outreach Coordinator for the Dallas R User Group, as a mentor for the R for Data Science Online Learning Community, as co-founder of #TidyTuesday, attending various Data Science and R-related conferences/meetups, and participated in Startup Weekend Fort Worth as a data scientist/entrepreneur
Kelly O’Briant | Interactivity in Production | RStudio (2019)
https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/interactivity-in-production/
In part 3 of this 3 part series, Kelly covers: Interactive products take your data science to a new level, but they require new coding decisions. This webinar will give you clear guidelines on when and how to add interactivity to your work. Here you’ll learn: when to use off-the-shelf interactive products like parameterized R Markdown and htmlwidgets, when to create bespoke interactivity with Shiny, how to make your Shiny apps as fast as possible, how to support interactivity in production, and much more.
About Kelly: Kelly is Solutions Engineer for RStudio and also an organizer of the Washington DC chapter of R-Ladies Global. It’s an R users group for lady-folk and friends
Garrett Grolemund | Reproducibility in Production | RStudio (2019)
https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/reproducibility-in-production/
In part 1 of this 3 part series, Garrett covers the following:
Computational documents offer limitless opportunities for your business. With them, your consumers can rerun your report with new parameters, apply your analysis to new data, or schedule future, automatic updates to your work—all with the click of a button. This is the first in a three part webinar series that will describe this new form of reproducibility. Here, we begin by showing you how to write executable R Markdown documents for a production environment.
About Garrett: Garrett is the author of Hands-On Programming with R and co-author of R for Data Science and R Markdown: The Definitive Guide. He is a Data Scientist at RStudio and holds a Ph.D. in Statistics, but specializes in teaching. He’s taught people how to use R at over 50 government agencies, small businesses, and multi-billion dollar global companies; and he’s designed RStudio’s training materials for R, Shiny, R Markdown and more. Garrett wrote the popular lubridate package for dates and times in R and creates the RStudio cheat sheets
Webinar Summary | Avoid Dashboard Fatigue | RStudio (2020)
0:00 Introduction 0:07 The Problem 1:05 The Solution 3:20 Real Life Success Stories 5:27 Demo (with code)
Don’t have an hour to watch a webinar? We’ve made a summary video that covers the main points of our “Avoid Dashboard Fatigue” webinar from Sean Lopp and Rich Iannone.
The full webinar covered: Data science teams face a challenging task. Not only do they have to gain insight from data, they also have to persuade others to make decisions based on those insights. To close this gap, teams rely on tools like dashboards, apps, and APIs. But unfortunately data organizations can suffer from their own success - how many of those dashboards are viewed once and forgotten? Is a dashboard of dashboards really the right solution? And what about that pesky, precisely formatted Excel spreadsheet finance still wants every week?
In this webinar, we’ll show you an easy way teams can solve these problems using proactive email notifications through the blastula and gt packages, and how RStudio pro products can be used to scale out those solutions for enterprise applications. Dynamic emails are a powerful way to meet decision makers where they live - their inbox - while displaying exactly the results needed to influence decision-making. Best of all, these notifications are crafted with code, ensuring your work is still reproducible, durable, and credible.
We’ll demonstrate how this approach provides solutions for data quality monitoring, detecting and alerting on anomalies, and can even automate routine (but precisely formatted) KPI reporting.
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/avoid-dashboard-fatigue/
About Sean: Sean has a degree in mathematics and statistics and worked as an analyst at the National Renewable Energy Lab before making the switch to customer success at RStudio. In his spare time he skis and mountain bikes and is a proud Colorado native.
About Rich: My background is in programming, data analysis, and data visualization. Much of my current work involves a combination of data acquisition, statistical programming, tools development, and visualizing the results. I love creating software that helps people accomplish things. I regularly update several R package projects (all available on GitHub). One such package is called DiagrammeR and it’s great for creating network graphs and performing analyses on the graphs. One of the big draws for open-source development is the collaboration that comes with the process. I encourage anyone interested to ask questions, make recommendations, or even help out if so inclined!
Tom Mock & Shannon Haggerty | Theming Shiny and RMarkdown with {thematic} & {bslib} | RStudio
From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: this presentation covers the basics of how the thematic and bslib packages can be used to consistently style all the components of a shiny app at once.
About Tom Mock: Thomas is involved in the local and global data science community, serving as Outreach Coordinator for the Dallas R User Group, as a mentor for the R for Data Science Online Learning Community, as co-founder of #TidyTuesday, attending various Data Science and R-related conferences/meetups, and participated in Startup Weekend Fort Worth as a data scientist/entrepreneur.
About Shannon Haggerty: Shannon is on RStudio’s Customer Success team working with teams across the Life Sciences and Healthcare. In her free time, she likes to bake, hang out with her dogs, and explore new hobbies.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Pedro Silva | Styling Shiny with CSS & SASS and Speeding Up Shiny Apps | Posit
From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: in the first part of this talk I will discuss how to use CSS to give your application a fresh and unique look, while keeping your codebase clean and organized with SASS. During the second half I will discuss how to leverage Shiny update functions, proxy objects and JavaScript messages to speed up your dashboards.
About Pedro Silva: Pedro has nearly a decade of experience combining frontend and backend technologies, and is an expert on augmenting R Shiny dashboards with CSS and JavaScript.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Jenny Bryan | Help me help you: creating reproducible examples | RStudio (2018)
What is a reprex? It’s a reproducible example. Making a great reprex is both an art and a science and this webinar will cover both aspects. A reprex makes a conversation about code more efficient and pleasant for all. This comes up whenever you ask someone for help, report a bug in software, or propose a new feature. The reprex package (https://reprex.Tidyverse.org ) makes it especially easy to prepare R code as a reprex, in order to share on sites such as https://community.rstudio.com , https://github.com , or https://stackoverflow.com . The habit of making little, rigorous, self-contained examples also has the great side effect of making you think more clearly about your programming problems.
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/help-me-help-you-creating-reproducible-examples/
About Jenny: Jenny is a software engineer on the tidyverse team. She is a recovering biostatistician who takes special delight in eliminating the small agonies of data analysis. Jenny is known for smoothing the interfaces between R and spreadsheets, web APIs, and Git/GitHub. She’s been working in R/S for over 20 years and is a member of the R Foundation. She also serves in the leadership of rOpenSci and Forwards and is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia
Damian Rodziewicz | Scaling Shiny to Thousands of Users | RStudio
From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: in this talk I will discuss how to scale Shiny dashboards to thousands of users.
About Damian Rodziewicz: Damian is one of the four co-founders of Appsilon. Before founding Appsilon he worked at Accenture, UBS, Microsoft and Domino Data Lab.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Dominik Krzemiński | Appsilon’s Guide to Working With Open Source Shiny | RStudio
From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: There is no need to praise Shiny for its influence on interactive data visualisation. As with many other technology stacks, Shiny could benefit from community contributions for the further development of the package itself and the growth of independent packages that add new features. In this talk, I present some of the most popular Shiny extensions and explain what are the ways to help with developing Shiny-related tools.
About Dominik Krzemiński: Dominik is the Open Source Tech Lead at Appsilon where he enjoys contributing to open source tools, mainly in R and Python. He created shiny.i18n, shiny.semantic, and the TODOr package for R. He also participated in the Google Summer of Code, where he developed tools supporting neuroscience analyses. He’s also a fan of all kinds of board sports and capoeira.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Olga Mierzwa-Sulima | Best Practices for Developing Shiny Apps | RStudio
From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: Best practices for developing Shiny apps presentation covers organizing app’s code with modules and R6 classes, setting up development environment, and testing.
About Olga Mierzwa-Sulima: Olga is experienced in production applications of analytical solutions, especially for FMCG companies. Recently she developed a price elasticity model for Unilever.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Filip Stachura & Marek Rogala | Empowering Data Scientists to Build Spectacular Shiny Apps | RStudio
From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: in this talk, Appsilon’s CEO and CTO show their vision of challenges facing Shiny app authors and what is crucial to achieving success. They announce 3 key initiatives that Appsilon undertakes to empower data scientists to build spectacular Shiny Apps, including the {shiny.fluent} package.
About Filip Stachura: Filip is a CEO and a Co-founder of Appsilon. He holds a double degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Warsaw. He started his professional career at Microsoft in California. Passionate about data analysis, elegant visualisations and tackling hard algorithmic and analytical problems.
About Marek Rogala: Marek Rogala is the CTO at Appsilon, where he drives innovation in R and Shiny as well as Machine Learning. He previously did software engineering at Google and at Domino Data Lab, where he worked on enabling data scientists to experiment and collaborate effectively.:
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Nathan Stephens | Best Practices for Administering RStudio in Production | RStudio (2019)
Most organizations are unfamiliar with the R programming language. As a result they often struggle to onboard and manage R in production. In this webinar we introduce the RStudio Quickstart which makes it easy to try RStudio professional products on your desktop for free. We also outline best practices for using R and RStudio in production.
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/best-practices-for-administering-rstudio-in-production/
About Nathan: Nathan has a background in analytic solutions and consulting. He has experience building data science teams, architecting analytic infrastructure, and delivering innovative data products. He is a long time user of R
Tom Mock | A Gentle Introduction to Tidy Statistics in R | RStudio (2019)
R is a fantastic language for statistical programming, but making the jump from point and click interfaces to code can be intimidating for individuals new to R. In this webinar I will gently cover how to get started quickly with the basics of research statistics in R, providing an emphasis on reading data into R, exploratory data analysis with the Tidyverse, statistical testing with ANOVAs, and finally producing a publication-ready plot in ggplot2.
Use the code presented instantly on RStudio Cloud!
RStudio Cloud: rstudio.cloud Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/a-gentle-introduction-to-tidy-statistics-in-r/
About Thomas: Thomas is involved in the local and global data science community, serving as Outreach Coordinator for the Dallas R User Group, as a mentor for the R for Data Science Online Learning Community, as co-founder of #TidyTuesday, attending various Data Science and R-related conferences/meetups, and participated in Startup Weekend Fort Worth as a data scientist/entrepreneur
Sean Lopp | Posit Investments in Pharma | Posit
From rstudio::global(2021) Pharma X-Sessions, sponsored by ProCogia: R/Pharma is an organization of R enthusiasts who work in the pharma and biotech industries. This presentation summarizes the group and presents some goals for 2021.
More about Sean Lopp: Sean has a degree in mathematics and statistics and worked as an analyst at the National Renewable Energy Lab before making the switch to customer success at RStudio. In his spare time he skis and mountain bikes and is a proud Colorado native.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Marly Gotti | Risk Assessment Tools: R Validation Hub Initiatives | Posit
From rstudio::global(2021) Pharma X-Sessions, sponsored by ProCogia: we will present some of the resources and tools the R Validation Hub has been working on to aid the biopharmaceutical industry in the process of using R in a regulatory setting. In the talk, you will learn about the {riskmetric} R package, which measures the risk of using R packages, and you will also see a demo of the Risk Assessment Shiny application, which is an advanced user interface for {riskmetric}.
About Marly Gotti: Marly Gotti is a Senior Data Scientist at Biogen and a former RStudio intern. She is also an executive committee member of the R Validation Hub, where she advocates for the use of R within a biopharmaceutical regulatory setting.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Harvey Lieberman | R/Pharma | Posit
From rstudio::global(2021) Pharma X-Sessions, sponsored by ProCogia: R/Pharma is an organization of R enthusiasts who work in the pharma and biotech industries. This presentation summarizes the group and presents some goals for 2021.
About Harvey Lieberman: Harvey Lieberman works at Novartis and has been a member of R/Pharma since 2017.
For more on R/Pharma: https://www.pharmar.org/
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Ellis Hughes | R Package Validation Framework | Posit
From rstudio::global(2021) Pharma X-Sessions, sponsored by ProCogia: in this talk I discuss the process developed for validating internally generated R packages at SCHARP (Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention) - the R Package Validation Framework. I cover the elements of the framework and basics of applying it with some examples. By using tools native to the R package building infrastructure, validation can become an integrated part of your package development, improving the quality of both the package and validation.
About Ellis Hughes: I am a statistical Programmer at Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center where I work on a team that evaluates potential HIV vaccine candidates. Having graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Bioengineering, I found a passion for programming in R. I now organize the Seattle UseR group, and enjoy building packages to automate my workflows.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Edgar Ruiz | Programación con R | RStudio (2019)
Hay ocasiones que, cuando trabajamos en un análisis en R, necesitamos dividir nuestros datos en grupos, y después tenemos que correr la misma operación sobre cada grupo. Por ejemplo, puede ser que los datos que tenemos contienen varios países, y necesitamos crear un modelo por cada país. Otro caso sería el de correr múltiples operaciones sobre los mismos datos. Estos casos requieren que sepamos cómo usar iteraciones con R. Este webinar se concentrará en cómo utilizar el paquete llamado purrr para ayudarnos a resolver este tipo de problema.
Descargar materiales: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/programacio-n-con-r/
About Edgar: Edgar Ruiz es un Ingeniero de Soluciones en RStudio. Es el administrador de los sitios oficiales de sparklyr y de R para bases de datos. También es autor de los paquetes de R: dbplot, tidypredict y modeldb, y co-autor de el paquete dbplyr
Mike Garcia | R in Pharma: Intro to Shiny | Posit
Slides: https://garciamikep.github.io/rstudioglobal-2021-shiny-slides/slides.html#1
From rstudio::global(2021) Pharma X-Sessions, sponsored by ProCogia: in this introduction to Shiny app development, we begin with a quick review of visualization with {ggplot2} and then cover core concepts in app structure and reactive programming. After building several Shiny apps of increasing complexity, we wrap up with a demonstration of how to include your Shiny app in a dashboard using the {flexdashboard} package.
About Mike Garcia: Mike is a Data Science Consultant with ProCogia, with a background in Biostatistics and experience in clinical trial design and public health research. If not geeking out on data with a cup of coffee and spreading his passion for R, he’s probably out enjoying the outdoors.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
To hear more about how other major pharmaceutical companies are transitioning to open source data science you can watch talks from this year’s R in Pharma conference: https://www.youtube.com/@RinPharma/playlists
At Posit, we have a dedicated Pharma team to help organizations migrate and utilize open source for drug development. To learn more about our support for life sciences, please see our dedicated Pharma page where you can book a call with our team. (https://posit.co/solutions/pharma )
Volha Tryputsen | R in Janssen Drug Discovery Statistics | Posit
From rstudio::global(2021) Pharma X-Sessions, sponsored by ProCogia: this talk discusses how R is utilized in the Janssen drug discovery statistics workflow.
About Volha: Volha is the Principal Statistician in the Translational Medicine and Early Development Statistics (TMEDS) group in the Quantitative Sciences Department of Janssen R&D.
Learn more about the rstudio::global(2021) X-Sessions: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/11/x-sessions-at-rstudio-global/
Lou Bajuk & Kevin Bolger | Why Data Science in the Cloud? | RStudio (2020)
As business and organizational needs expand, a centralized ecosystem such as the cloud is needed to securely store and access data, conduct analyses, and share results.
We’ll share some examples of what it means to do data science in the cloud and discuss some problems that users may face along the way, and the solutions that RStudio products can provide. We’ll also discuss best practices for migrating to a cloud environment.
What you’ll learn:
- What are the benefits of working in a cloud environment?
- What are the different cloud environments available?
- How do I learn which is the best fit for my organization?
- What should I consider when migrating my data science infrastructure to the cloud?
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/why-data-science-in-the-cloud/
About Lou: Lou is a passionate advocate for data science software, and has had many years of experience in a variety of leadership roles in large and small software companies, including product marketing, product management, engineering and customer success. In his spare time, his interests includes books, cycling, science advocacy, great food and theater.
About Kevin: After finishing his education in the University of Limerick, Ireland – Kevin’s passion for data science was cemented. Focusing primarily on data analytics and modelling, he went on to spend the first years of his career working at a biopharmaceutical company, where he led the data team on multiple products. Since moving to Seattle with his Washington native wife, Kevin has spent his spare time enjoying the beautiful PNW and playing ‘hurling’, an ancient gaelic field sport with the Seattle Gaels. He now leads the Data Science team at ProCogia as the Director of Data Solutions – where he works with clients from Biotech to Telecom
Hadley Wickham | testthat 3.0.0 | RStudio (2020)
In this webinar, I’ll introduce some of the major changes coming in testthat 3.0.0. The biggest new idea in testthat 3.0.0 is the idea of an edition. You must deliberately choose to use the 3rd edition, which allows us to make breaking changes without breaking old packages. testthat 3e deprecates a number of older functions that we no longer believe are a good idea, and tweaks the behaviour of expect_equal() and expect_identical() to give considerably more informative output (using the new waldo package).
testthat 3e also introduces the idea of snapshot tests which record expected value in external files, rather than in code. This makes them particularly well suited to testing user output and complex objects. I’ll show off the main advantages of snapshot testing, and why it’s better than our previous approaches of verify_output() and expect_known_output().
Finally, I’ll go over a bunch of smaller quality-of-life improvements, including tweaks to test reporting and improvements to expect_error(), expect_warning() and expect_message().
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/testthat-3/
About Hadley: Hadley Wickham is the Chief Scientist at RStudio, a member of the R Foundation, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and the University of Auckland. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. You may be familiar with his packages for data science (the tidyverse: including ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, purrr, and readr) and principled software development (roxygen2, testthat, devtools, pkgdown). Much of the material for the course is drawn from two of his existing books, Advanced R and R Packages, but the course also includes a lot of new material that will eventually become a book called “Tidy tools”
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Teaching R online with RStudio Cloud | RStudio (2020)
RStudio Cloud is a lightweight and easy to set up / use solution to teaching R online, in the browser. In this webinar we will walk you through the steps of setting up your course on RStudio Cloud, highlighting the various functionalities for teachers and students. We will also discuss best practices and provide an opportunity for the audience to experience the setup first hand. Additionally, we highlight a suite of ready to use resources for teaching an introduction to data science and statistical thinking course using R.
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/teaching-r-online-with-rstudio-cloud/
About Mine: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is Professional Educator and Data Scientist at RStudio as well as Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at University of Edinburgh (on leave from Department of Statistical Science at Duke University). Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education as well as pedagogical approaches for enhancing retention of women and under-represented minorities in STEM. Mine works on integrating computation into the undergraduate statistics curriculum, using reproducible research methodologies and analysis of real and complex datasets. She also organizes ASA DataFest and works on the OpenIntro project. She is also the creator and maintainer of datasciencebox.org and she teaches the popular Statistics with R MOOC on Coursera
A quick tour of RStudio 1.4 | RStudio
HD version here: https://youtu.be/oCR_LB3H73M
0:00 Introduction 0:20 R Markdown Visual Editor 0:46 Insert citations in R Markdown 1:09 Python support in Environment pane 2:05 Python environment selection 2:25 Rainbow parentheses 2:43 Monospace font support 2:54 Support for multiple source columns 3:10 Command palette 3:27 Customize data and configuration storage (users and servers) 3:55 RStudio Pro edition features 4:08 Authenticate RStudio Server Pro using SAML 4:25 Project sharing with Launcher 4:48 Request a GPU with SLURM 5:00 Run Visual Studio Code sessions (beta)
What’s new with RStudio 1.4:
A visual markdown editor that provides improved productivity for composing longer-form articles and analyses with R Markdown.
New Python capabilities, including display of Python objects in the Environment pane, viewing of Python data frames, and tools for configuring Python versions and conda/virtual environments.
The ability to add source columns to the IDE workspace for side-by-side text editing.
A new command palette (accessible via Ctrl+Shift+P) that provides easy keyboard access to all RStudio commands, add-ins, and options.
Support for rainbow parentheses in the source editor (enabled via Options, then Code, then Display).
New citation support that allows you to include document citations from your document bibliography, personal or group libraries, and several other sources.
Integration with a host of new RStudio Server Pro features including project sharing when using Launcher, Microsoft Visual Studio Code support (currently in beta), SAML authentication, and local launcher load-balancing.
Read more on our blog: https://blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/19/announcing-rstudio-1-4/
Greg Wilson | Teaching Online at Short Notice | RStudio (2020)
So here you are: you planned to teach your class or deliver your workshop in person, and now you have to do it online or not at all.
Nobody is giving you time or money to make the change, and a hundred other things also need your attention. Where should you start, and what can you realistically hope to achieve? This one-hour webinar will present answers from people who have found themselves in this situation before, and will recommend a handful of techniques that you can apply right away.
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/teaching-online-at-short-notice/
About Greg: Dr. Greg Wilson has worked for 35 years in both industry and academia, and is the author or editor of several books on computing and two for children. He is best known as the co-founder of Software Carpentry, a non-profit organization that teaches basic computing skills to researchers, and is now part of the education team at RStudio
James Blaire & Barret Schloerke | Integrating R with Plumber APIs | RStudio (2020)
Full title: Expanding R Horizons: Integrating R with Plumber APIs
In this webinar we will focus on using the Plumber package as a tool for integrating R with other frameworks and technologies. Plumber is a package that converts your existing R code to a web API using unique one-line comments. Example use cases will be used to demonstrate the power of APIs in data science and to highlight new features of the Plumber package. Finally, we will look at methods for deploying Plumber APIs to make them widely accessible.
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/expanding-r-horizons-integrating-r-with-plumber-apis/
About James: James is a Solutions Engineer at RStudio, where he focusses on helping RStudio commercial customers successfully manage RStudio products. He is passionate about connecting R to other toolchains through tools like ODBC and APIs. He has a background in statistics and data science and finds any excuse he can to write R code.
About Barret: I specialize in Large Data Visualization where I utilize the interactivity of a web browser, the fast iterations of the R programming language, and large data storage capacity of Hadoop
Roche & Novartis: Effective Visualizations for Data Driven Decisions || Posit (2020)
Effective visual communication is a core task for all data scientists including statisticians, epidemiologists, machine learning experts, bioinformaticians, etc.
By using the right graphical principles, we can better understand data, highlight core insights and influence decisions toward appropriate actions. Without it, we can fool ourselves and others and pave the way to wrong conclusions and actions. While numerous solutions exist to analyze data, these often require many manual steps to convert them into visually convincing and meaningful reports. How do we put this in practice in an accurate, transparent and reproducible way?
In this webinar we will introduce an open collaborative effort, currently undertaken by Roche and Novartis, to develop solutions for effective visual communication with a focus on reporting medical and clinical data. The aim of the collaboration is to develop a user-friendly, fit for purpose, open source package to simplify the use of good graphical principles for effective visual communication of typical analyses of interventional and observational data encountered in clinical drug development. We will introduce the initial visR package design which easily integrates into a typical tidyverse workflow. The package provides guidance and meaningful default parameters covering all aspects from the design, implementation and review of statistical graphics.
Webinar materials: https://posit.co/resources/videos/effective-visualizations-for-data-driven-decisions/
About Charlotta: Charlotta is a computational biologist by training and works as a data scientist in the Personalized Healthcare department at Roche where she uses R to untap the wealth of information coming from healthcare data collected in real-world settings to support the development of new medicines.
About Diego: Diego is a data scientist specializing in applied machine learning at Roche Personalized Healthcare since March 2019. He has developed models to perform various tasks and analyze diverse data sources. Currently, his main applications of interest are in onocology and clinico-genomics.
About Mark: Mark is a methodologist supporting the clinical development and analytics department at Novartis. He has a focus on data visualization working on a number of internal and external initiatives to improve the reporting of clinical trials and observational studies.
About Marc: Marc is a biostatistics group head at Novartis. He is interested in advancing the methods and practice of clinical development, for instance through effective use of graphics. https://graphicsprinciples.github.io/
Sean Lopp & Lou Bajuk | R & Python: A Data Science Love Story | RStudio (2020)
Many Data Science teams today leverage both R and Python in their work, but struggle to use them together. Data Science leaders and their business partners find it difficult to make key data science content easily discoverable and available for decision-making, while IT Admins and DevOps engineers grapple with how to efficiently support these teams without duplicating infrastructure. Even experienced data scientists familiar with both languages often struggle to combine them without painful context switching and manual translations.
In this webinar, you will learn how RStudio helps organizations tackle these challenges, with a focus on some of the recent additions to our products that have helped deepen the happy relationship between R and Python:
- Easily combine R and Python in a single Data Science project using a single IDE.
- Leverage a single infrastructure to launch and manage Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab, VSCode and the RStudio IDE, while giving your team easy access to Kubernetes and other resources.
- Share and manage access to R- and Python-based interactive applications, dashboards, and APIs, all in a single place.
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/r-python-a-data-science-love-story/
About Lou: Lou is a passionate advocate for data science software, and has had many years of experience in a variety of leadership roles in large and small software companies, including product marketing, product management, engineering and customer success. In his spare time, his interests includes books, cycling, science advocacy, great food and theater.
About Sean: Sean has a degree in mathematics and statistics and worked as an analyst at the National Renewable Energy Lab before making the switch to customer success at RStudio. In his spare time he skis and mountain bikes and is a proud Colorado native
Sean Lopp & Rich Iannone | Avoid Dashboard Fatigue | RStudio (2020)
Data science teams face a challenging task. Not only do they have to gain insight from data, they also have to persuade others to make decisions based on those insights. To close this gap, teams rely on tools like dashboards, apps, and APIs. But unfortunately data organizations can suffer from their own success - how many of those dashboards are viewed once and forgotten? Is a dashboard of dashboards really the right solution? And what about that pesky, precisely formatted Excel spreadsheet finance still wants every week?
In this webinar, we’ll show you an easy way teams can solve these problems using proactive email notifications through the blastula and gt packages, and how RStudio pro products can be used to scale out those solutions for enterprise applications. Dynamic emails are a powerful way to meet decision makers where they live - their inbox - while displaying exactly the results needed to influence decision-making. Best of all, these notifications are crafted with code, ensuring your work is still reproducible, durable, and credible.
We’ll demonstrate how this approach provides solutions for data quality monitoring, detecting and alerting on anomalies, and can even automate routine (but precisely formatted) KPI reporting.
Webinar materials: https://rstudio.com/resources/webinars/avoid-dashboard-fatigue/
About Sean: Sean has a degree in mathematics and statistics and worked as an analyst at the National Renewable Energy Lab before making the switch to customer success at RStudio. In his spare time he skis and mountain bikes and is a proud Colorado native.
About Rich: My background is in programming, data analysis, and data visualization. Much of my current work involves a combination of data acquisition, statistical programming, tools development, and visualizing the results. I love creating software that helps people accomplish things. I regularly update several R package projects (all available on GitHub). One such package is called DiagrammeR and it’s great for creating network graphs and performing analyses on the graphs. One of the big draws for open-source development is the collaboration that comes with the process. I encourage anyone interested to ask questions, make recommendations, or even help out if so inclined!
Marie Vendettuoli | Lessons learned developing a library of validated packages | RStudio
Full title: Towards an integrated {verse}: lessons learned developing a library of validated packages
Developing R packages as a unified {verse} – a set of packages that work well together but with each focusing on individual tasks – is an efficient strategy to structure support for complex workflows. The ongoing challenge becomes managing the growth of related packages in a holistic manner. This is especially problematic in industries with a heavy emphasis on stability, for example if packages need to be validated prior to use in production. In this talk, I will discuss a paradigm for developing and maintaining validated R packages, emphasizing the following areas:
- Strategies for organizing packages to prevent excessive re-work
- Facilitating responsive, iterative development and
- Empathy for developer and user experiences
About Marie: Marie Vendettuoli is a Senior Statistical Programmer at Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP - https://www.fredhutch.org/en/research/divisions/vaccine-infectious-disease-division/research/biostatistics-bioinformatics-and-epidemiology/statistical-center-for-hiv-aids-research-and-prevention.html ) @ FredHutch. She holds a PhD from Iowa State University in Human Computer Interaction and started developing R packages for use within regulatory frameworks while working as a Data Scientist at USDA Center for Veterinary Biologics (https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/veterinary-biologics/sa_about_vb/ct_vb_about) . Before discovering R, Marie worked in a CBER (https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/center-biologics-evaluation-and-research-cber)-regulated laboratory. Her main interest is developing analytical infrastructure to facilitate scientific analysis for fellow data scientists working in a regulatory environment
Winston Chang | Making Shiny apps faster with caching | RStudio
Shiny’s 1.6 has a new function, bindCache(), which makes it easy to dramatically speed up reactive expressions and output rendering functions. This allows many applications to scale up to serve several times more users without an increase in server resources.
Note: Shiny 1.6.0 isn’t yet on CRAN, but will be in the next few days. In the meantime, you can install it with:
remotes::install_github(““rstudio/shiny@rc-v1.6.0 "”)
About Winston: Winston is a software engineer at RStudio. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University and is the author of R Graphics Cookbook, published by O’Reilly Media
Vicki Boykis | Your public garden | RStudio
Vicki will discuss how that as people who can write code and analyze data, we have a lot of input and power over what our digital and work worlds looks like, and therefore can act as agents of change and repair.
About Vicki: Vicki Boykis is a machine learning engineer at Automattic, the company behind Wordpress.com. She works mostly in Python, R, Spark, and SQL, and really enjoys building end-to-end data products. Outside of work she publishes the Normcore Tech newsletter (https://vicki.substack.com ) and blogs at https://veekaybee.github.io/ . In her “spare time”, she blogs, reads, and writes terrible joke tweets about data
Shelmith Kariuki | rKenyaCensus Package | RStudio
The rKenyaCensus package contains the results of the 2019 Kenya Population Census. The census exercise was carried out in August 2019, and the results were released in February 2020. Kenya leveraged on technology to capture data during cartographic mapping, enumeration and data transmission, making the 2019 Census the first paperless census to be conducted in Kenya. The data was published in four different pdf files (Volume 1 - Volume 4) which can be found in the Kenya National Bureau of statistics website. The data in its current form was open and accessible, but not usable and so there was need to convert it into a machine readable format. This data can be used by the government, non-governmental organizations and any other entities for data driven policy making and development. During the talk, I will explain the reasons behind development of the package, take you through the steps I took during the process and finally showcase analysis of certain aspects of the data.
About Shelmith: Shelmith Kariuki is a Senior Data Analyst based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is an RStudio Certified Tidyverse trainer (https://education.rstudio.com/trainers/) , currently working as a Data Analytics consultant with UN DESA. She previously worked as a Research Manager at Geopoll, and as a Data Analyst at Busara Center for Behavioral Economics. She also worked as an assistant lecturer in various Kenyan universities, teaching units in Statistics and Actuarial Science. She has extensive experience in data analysis using R. She co-organizes a community of R users in Nairobi (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/nairobir/ ) and in Africa (https://twitter.com/AfricaRUsers) . One of the missions of her community work is to make sure that there is an increased number of R adopters, in Africa. She is very passionate about training and using data analytics to drive development projects in Africa
Nicole Kramer | A New Paradigm for Multifigure Coordinate-Based Plotting in R | RStudio
R is unparalleled in its ability to transform raw data into a wide array of beautiful graphics, all within the same environment. However, when it comes to complex, multi-paneled plots, users rely on 3rd party graphic design software to arrange plots. Here I present the new world of programmatic, coordinate-based multi-figure plotting in R. Employing grid Graphics and drawing from the paradigms of base plotting and ggplot2, I am developing a package that will revolutionize the way plots are laid out in R. Not only will individual plots be aesthetically customizable and tailored for speed, users will also be offered exquisite control over all aspects of page layout, plot placement, and arrangements. Come join me in changing how we plot in R!
About Nicole: Nicole Kramer is a third year Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She works in the lab of Dr. Doug Phanstiel , where her and her colleagues use experimental and computational techniques to study human genomics. Prior to grad school, Nicole received her B.S. in Biological Engineering from MIT in 2018. When not doing science, you can find Nicole petting dogs, admiring giraffes, or knitting tiny animals!
Megan Beckett | Aesthetically automated figure production | RStudio
Automation, reproducibility, data driven. These are not normally concepts one would associate with the traditional publishing industry, where designers normally manually produce every artefact in proprietary software. And, when you have 1000s of figures to produce and update for a single textbook, this becomes an insurmountable task, meaning our textbooks quickly become outdated, especially in our rapidly advancing world.
With R and the tidyverse in our back pocket, we rose to the challenge to revolutionize this workflow. I will explain how we collaborated with a publishing group to develop a system to aesthetically automate the production of figures for a textbook including translations into several languages.
I think you’ll find this talk interesting as it shows how we applied tools that are familiar to us, but in an unconventional way to fundamentally transform a conventional process.
About Megan: Megan Beckett is a Data Scientist at Exegetic Analytics, where she consults, develops and leads several analytical projects across a wide range of fields and industries. “Scientifically creative; creatively scientific.” This aptly describes her philosophy and approach in her work and life. Megan helped co-found and organises the Cape Town R-Ladies chapter and is a co-organiser of the satRday events in South Africa. She loves to paint, with her most recent work exploring the biodiversity of southern Africa , and running is her passion, whether on the road or the trail
Matt Thomas & Mike Page | How the Tidyverse helped the British Red Cross respond to COVID | RStudio
Full title: Cognitive speed: How the Tidyverse helped the British Red Cross respond quickly to COVID-19
We will discuss the importance of cognitive speed, defined here as the rate in which an idea can be translated into code, and why the Tidyverse excels in this domain. We will demonstrate this idea in relation to a suite of tools we were required to rapidly develop at the British Red Cross in order to respond effectively to the COVID-19 pandemic. To do this, we will exhibit how elements of the unifying design principles outlined in the ‘tidyverse design guide - Tidyverse team’ relate to the notion of cognitive speed, giving specific examples for various design considerations. We believe this talk will encourage reflection on better design practices for future R developers, using the design principles of the tidyverse as the guiding beacon.
About Matt: Dr. Matt Thomas is Head of Strategic Insight and Foresight at the British Red Cross. Matt’s team aims to help the Red Cross become more anticipatory and proactive by producing insights and tools including the Vulnerability Index (https://britishredcrosssociety.github.io/covid-19-vulnerability/ ) and Resilience Index (https://britishredcross.shinyapps.io/resilience-index/) . He holds a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology and, prior to joining the British Red Cross, was researching topics including reindeer herders in the Arctic, hunter-gatherers in the Philippines, and witches in China. Outside of work, Matt writes a column for an anthropology magazine (https://www.sapiens.org/column/machinations/ ) as well as fiction.
About Mike: Mike Page is a data scientist on the Strategic Insight and Foresight team at the British Red Cross. Here, he helps to develop a suite of open source tools and dashboards including the Vulnerability Index (https://britishredcrosssociety.github.io/covid-19-vulnerability/ ) and Resilience Index (https://britishredcross.shinyapps.io/resilience-index/) . Mike is also the author of several R packages including mortyr and newsrivr. In his spare time you can find him rock climbing around the Alps
Ahmadou Dicko | Humanitarian Data Science with R | RStudio
Humanitarian actors are increasingly using data to drive their decisions. Since the Haiti 2010 earthquake, the volume of data collected and used by humanitarians has been growing exponentially and organizations are now relying on data specialists to turn all this data into life-saving data products.
These data products are created by teams using proprietary point and click software. The process from the raw data to the final data product involves a lot of clicking, copying and pasting and is usually not reproducible.
Another approach to humanitarian data science is possible using R. In this talk, I will show how to seamlessly develop reproducible, reusable humanitarian data products using the tidyverse, rmarkdown and some domain-focused R packages.
About Ahmadou: Ahmadou Dicko is a statistics and data analysis officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) where he uses statistics and data science to help safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees in West and Central Africa. He has an extensive experience in the use of statistics and data science in development and humanitarian projects. Ahmadou was the lead of the OCHA Center for Humanitarian Data team for West and Central Africa and has worked with several humanitarian and development organizations such as IFRC, FAO, IAEA, OCHA. Ahmadou is a RStudio trainer (https://education.rstudio.com/trainers/ ) and he is passionate about the R community. He is currently co-organizing the Dakar R User Group (https://www.meetup.com/DakaR-R-User-Group/ ) and co-leading the AfricaR initiative (https://africa-r.org/ )
Tracy Teal | Teaching R using inclusive pedagogy: Carpentries workshops lessons learned | RStudio
Talk from rstudio::conf(2019)
The Carpentries is an open, global community teaching researchers the skills to turn data into knowledge. Since 2012 we have taught 700+ R workshops & trained 1600+ volunteer instructors. Our workshops use evidence-based teaching, focus on foundational and relevant skills and create an inclusive environment. Teaching the Tidyverse allows learners to start working with data quickly, and keeps them motivated to begin and sustain their learning. Our assessment show that these approaches have been successful in attracting diverse learners, building confidence & increasing coding usage. Through our train-the-trainer model and open, collaborative lessons, this approach scales globally to reach more learners and further democratize data.
About Tracy Teal: Executive Director of The Carpentries (https://carpentries.org ) and co-founder of Data Carpentry (http://www.datacarpentry.org ), a non-profit organization that develops and runs workshops training researchers in effective data analysis and visualization to enable data-driven discovery. Manages projects, operations and finances. Leads lesson development and volunteer coordination and is responsible for strategic and business planning
Sean Lopp | Announcing Posit Package Manager | RStudio (2019)
Posit Package Manager is the newest professional product that helps teams, departments, and entire enterprises organize and centralize package management. If you’ve ever struggled with IT to get access to a new (any?) R package, reproduce an old result, or share your code with others, Posit Package Manager can help! We’ll introduce the new product, discuss how R repositories can be used to solve problems and take a sneak peek at what is coming in 2019.
VIEW MATERIALS https://github.com/slopp/rspm-rstudioconf
About the Author Sean Lopp Sean has a degree in mathematics and statistics and worked as an analyst at the National Renewable Energy Lab before making the switch to customer success at RStudio. In his spare time he skis and mountain bikes and is a proud Colorado native.
*Posit Package Manager, formerly known as RStudio Package Manager
Jake Thompson | Branding and Packaging Reports with R Markdown | RStudio (2020)
The creation of research reports and manuscripts is a critical aspect of the work conducted by organizations and individual researchers. Most often, this process involves copying and pasting output from many different analyses into a separate document. Especially in organizations that produce annual reports for repeated analyses, this process can also involve applying incremental updates to annual reports. It is important to ensure that all relevant tables, figures, and numbers within the text are updated appropriately. Done manually, these processes are often error prone and inefficient. R Markdown is ideally suited to support these tasks. With R Markdown, users are able to conduct analyses directly in the document or read in output from a separate analyses pipeline. Tables, figures, and in-line results can then be dynamically populated and automatically numbered to ensure that everything is correctly updated when new data is provided. Additionally, the appearance of documents rendered with R Markdown can be customized to meet specific branding and formatting requirements of organizations and journals. In this presentation, we will present one implementation of customized R Markdown reports used for Accessible Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Systems (ATLAS) at the University of Kansas. A publicly available R package, ratlas, provides both Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates for different types of projects at ATLAS with their own unique formatting requirements. We will discuss how to create brand-specific templates, as well as how to incorporate the templates into an R package that can be used to unify report creation across an organization. We will also describe other components of branding reports beyond R Markdown templates, including customized ggplot2 themes, which can also be wrapped into the R package. Finally, we will share lessons learned from incorporating the R package workflow into an existing reporting pipeline. https://rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2020/branding-and-packaging-reports-with-r-markdown/
Joe Cheng | Styling Shiny apps with Sass and Bootstrap 4 | Posit (2020)
Customizing the style–fonts, colors, margins, spacing–of Shiny apps has always been possible, but never as easy as we’d like it to be. Canned themes like those in the shinythemes package can easily make apps look slightly less generic, but that’s small consolation if your goal is to match the visual style of your university, corporation, or client.
In theory, one can “just” use CSS to customize the appearance of your Shiny app, the same as any other web application. But in practice, the use of large CSS frameworks like Bootstrap means significant CSS expertise is required to comprehensively change the look of an app.
Relief is on the way. As part of a round of upgrades to Shiny’s UI, we’ve made fundamental changes to the way R users can interact with CSS, using new R packages we’ve created around Sass and Bootstrap 4. In this talk, we’ll show some of the features of these packages and tell you how you can take advantage of them in your apps.
Resources: https://speakerdeck.com/jcheng5/styling-shiny
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Making the Shiny Contest | RStudio (2020)
In January 2019 RStudio launched the first-ever Shiny contest to recognize outstanding Shiny applications and to share them with the community. We received 136 submissions for the contest and reviewing them was incredibly inspiring and humbling. In this talk, we shine a spotlight on the backstage: the inspiration behind the contest, the process of evaluation, what we learned about Shiny developers and how we can better support them, and what we learned about running contests and how we hope to improve the Shiny Contest experience. We also highlight some of the winning apps as well as the newly revamped Shiny Gallery, which features many noteworthy contest submissions. Finally, we introduce the new process for submitting your apps to the Shiny Gallery and, of course, to Shiny Contest 2020! https://rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2020/making-the-shiny-contest/
Javier Luraschi | Updates on Spark, MLflow, and the broader ML ecosystem | RStudio (2020)
Originally posted at https://rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2020/updates-on-spark-mlflow-and-the-broader-ml-ecosystem/
Yihui Xie | One R Markdown Document, Fourteen Demos | RStudio (2020)
R Markdown is a document format based on the R language and Markdown to intermingle computing with narratives in the same document. With this simple format, you can actually do a lot of things. For example, you can generate reports dynamically (no need to cut-and-paste any results because all results can be dynamically generated from R), write papers and books, create websites, and make presentations. In this talk, I’ll use a single R Markdown document to give demos of the R packages rmarkdown,
- bookdown for authoring books (https://bookdown.org ),
- blogdown for creating websites (https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown) ,
- rticles for writing journal papers (https://github.com/rstudio/rticles) ,
- xaringan for making slides (https://github.com/yihui/xaringan) ,
- flexdashboard for generating dashboards (https://github.com/rstudio/flexdashboard) ,
- learnr for tutorials (https://github.com/rstudio/learnr) ,
- rolldown for storytelling (https://github.com/yihui/rolldown) ,
And the integration between Shiny and R Markdown. To make the best use of your time during the presentation, I recommend you to take a look at the rmarkdown website in advance: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com
Miriah Meyer | Effective Visualizations | RStudio (2020)
Originally posted to https://rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2020/effective-visualizations/
Riva Quiroga | The development of “datos” package for the R4DS Spanish translation| RStudio (2020)
Originally posted at https://rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2020/the-development-of-datos-package-for-the-r4ds-spanish-translation/
Jeff Leek | Data science education as a public health intervention in E. Baltimore | RStudio (2020)
Originally posted at https://rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2020/data-science-education-as-an-economic-and-public-health-intervention-in-east-baltimore/
Rebecca Barter | Becoming an R blogger | RStudio (2020)
Blogging is an excellent way to learn, improve your communication skills, and gain exposure in the R and data science communities. In this talk, I will discuss how and why I started blogging, and why you should too. I will guide you through choosing topics, writing your blog using RStudio and blogdown, hosting it on netlify, and sharing your blog with the world. This talk is for you if you’ve wanted to start a blog on R, data science, or to showcase your data analyses, but don’t know where to start.
Materials: github https://github.com/rlbarter/rstudio-conf-2020-blogger-slides slides (pdf) https://github.com/rlbarter/rstudio-conf-2020-blogger-slides/blob/master/Becoming%20an%20R%20blogger
Sigrid Keydana | Why TensorFlow eager execution matters | RStudio (2019)
In current deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow, when you’ve mastered the basics and are ready to dive into more involved applications (such as generative networks, sequence-to-sequence or attention mechanisms), you may find that surprisingly, the learning curve doesn’t get much flatter. This is largely due to restrictions imposed by TensorFlow’s traditional static graph paradigm. With TensorFlow Eager Execution, available since summer and announced to be the default mode in the upcoming major release, model architectures become more flexible, readable, composable, and last not least, debuggable. In this session, we’ll see how with Eager, we can code sophisticated architectures like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) in a straightforward way.
VIEW MATERIALS https://github.com/skeydan/rstudio_conf_2019_eager_execution
Lionel Henry | Working with names and expressions in your tidy eval code | RStudio (2019)
n practice there are two main flavors of tidy eval functions: functions that select columns, such as dplyr::select(), and functions that operate on columns, such as dplyr::mutate(). While sharing a common tidy eval foundation, these functions have distinct properties, good practices, and available tooling. In this talk, you’ll learn your way around selecting and doing tidy eval style.
Materials: https://speakerdeck.com/lionelhenry/selecting-and-doing-with-tidy-eval
Joe Cheng | Shiny in production: Principles, practices, and tools | RStudio (2019)
Shiny is a web framework for R, a language not traditionally known for web frameworks, to say the least. As such, Shiny has always faced questions about whether it can or should be used “in production”. In this talk we’ll explore what “production” even means, review some of the historical obstacles and objections to using Shiny for production purposes, and discuss practices and tools that can help your Shiny apps flourish.
About the Author: Joe Cheng is the Chief Technology Officer at RStudio. Joe was the original creator of Shiny, and leads the team responsible for Shiny and Shiny Server. GitHub: https://github.com/jcheng5
Materials: https://speakerdeck.com/jcheng5/shiny-in-production
Jeff Allen | RStudio Connect Past, present, and future | RStudio (2019)
RStudio Connect is a publishing platform that helps to operationalize the data science work you’re doing. We’ll review the current state of RStudio including its ability to host Shiny applications and Plumber APIs, schedule and render R Markdown documents, and manage access. Then we’ll unveil some exciting new features that we’ve been working on, and give you a sneak peek at what’s coming up next.
Materials: http://rstd.io/rsc170