Using Shiny in the Classroom
Using Shiny in the Classroom
First of all, why even??
Because you want your students to explore some data!
But why Shiny?
Because you want to maximize accessibility!
But how can I do this? I don’t have a lot of time!
I’ve made Shiny dashboards for students before, and I want to gift you with a set of resources to get you started.
Facilitating student learning
Facilitating student learning
Not all of my students have a background in statistical programming (experience != TRUE)
I could have gotten my students trained up, but this would have:
- eaten up precious class time ⌛
- led to unnecessary discouragement ☹
- frustrated me 😣
Shiny as the solution
Why Shiny?
There are tons of pre-existing dashboards out there already!
But is there a dashboard that already does exactly what you want it to do?
Does it have exactly the data you want your students to explore?
No?
Then Shiny can give you everything that you’re looking for! 💪
What I’ve done
Link: https://github.com/milesdwilliams15/shiny-data-explorer-template
What we’ll do
✔ I’ll have you download the code I used to create my Shiny Data Explorer Template
✔ I’ll walk you through the code so you can understand what it’s doing
✔ I’ll have us wrap up with an exercise where you update my code using a new dataset of your choice
Before we get to it…
😨 You might be questioning whether you’re “techy” enough to make this work.
🛑 Don’t!
The process can be a little confusing at first
But you can do it!