Meet the Team!

Power-On (Setup)

Follow Setup Procedure to connect with the workshop resources:

  • RStudio Connect
  • RStudio Cloud
  • Account Integrations

The Beginning …

  • You’ve seen Shiny could be a game-changer for a project
  • Build an application quickly, purely with R code
  • You send it to a key stakeholder, and they love it

A New World

  • Everyone who sees it thinks the app is amazing
  • Suddenly you are asked (or told) this needs to get into PRODUCTION
  • ….. and now what?

Many Users

High-Profile Situations

Part of a Critical Pipeline

The Journey Ahead


Production has more than one meaning for Shiny apps


The tooling & principles discussed in this workshop will guide you to the destination

Synthetic COVID-19 Data

  • Over 124,000 synthetic patients generated using open-source Synthea Tool
  • Longitudinal records of simulated COVID-19 progression leveraging resources & publications known in early 2020

(Data) Disclaimer …

Our Requirements

We will build a Shiny application simclindata.shiny in the spirit of many Life Sciences projects:

  • Integration of multiple (large) data sets for analyses and visualization
  • Interactive explorations linking multiple displays
  • Clean & Logical user interface and overall user experience
  • Maintainable code organization and dependencies