Category Archives: Shiny

Interactive visualization of geospatial data with R Shiny

April 16, 2021 3:23 pm ,

As a supplement to a recently published study by Marcel Helbig and Katja Salomo (available only in German) about socioeconomic inequalities for children in seven German cities, I’ve created an interactive web visualization with R Shiny and I wanted to share a few experiences that I made during development. This will be mainly about interactive visualization of geospatial data and custom UI elements. Below is a link to an example showing social welfare support rate amongst children and several environmental characteristics in Saarbrucken.

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Posted in: GIS / spatial data, R, Shiny, Visualization, Web Development

Developing a complex R Shiny app – the good, the bad and the ugly

February 27, 2020 12:32 pm ,

Together with Clara Bicalho (UC Berkeley) and Sisi Huang (WZB), I recently developed a web application that acts as a convenient interface to the DeclareDesign R package and its repository of research designs, DesignLibrary. This web application, which we called DeclareDesign Wizard, allows users to investigate and customize research designs in their web browser. We used R Shiny for implementing it and since this was my first large Shiny project, I wanted to reflect a bit on the development process and tell in which parts Shiny shone, and in which it didn’t.

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