Thursday, 20 October, 2016 | 19:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Pablo Maldonado “Web App Development in R using Shiny”

Would you like to learn to use R to develop dashboards like these? 
https://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/shiny-user-showcase/
https://mbienz.shinyapps.io/tourism_dashboard_prod/
https://gallery.shinyapps.io/086-bus-dashboard/

If yes, this is the right course for you. If you already have some knowledge of R, it is an advantage. However, you are welcome to join without any prior knowledge, basics of R will be covered during the first session and with some additional homework, you should be able to catch up. Attending this course will be very useful if you want to join our Datathon, as you can utilize what you learn in the course immediately!

Thursdays, 19:00-20:30
Starting date: 20 October, 2016
Finishing date: 10 November, 2016

About the facilitator: Juan Pablo Maldonado López
Pablo earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics at Université Paris VI - Pierre at Marie Curie. He was an adjunct professor at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. For the past two years he has worked as a Data Scientist in the Czech Republic for O2 Czech Republic and PricewaterhouseCoopers.  

Curriculum

Session 1: R and dplyr (data manipulation and basic operations)

Session 2: Introduction to Shiny and ggplot

Session 3: Acquiring data from external sources

Session 4: Leaflet package (visualizing maps, geographical data)