Welcome!

The goals of the Shiny Developer Series are to showcase the innovative applications and packages in the ever-growing Shiny ecosystem, as well as the brilliant developers behind them! The series is composed of these components:

  • Video demonstrations and tutorials illustrating powerful techniques to bring your Shiny applications to the next level. Each of these videos will be posted on this site as well as the official Shiny Developer Series YouTube channel & PeerTube channel.
  • If you would like to listen to an audio-only version of the episodes, the Shiny Developer Series is now available as a podcast! You can subscribe on the following podcast platforms:

Recent Posts

Episode 10: The Importance of User Experience with John Coene

Examining how improving user experience can lift Shiny applications to production level!
Last updated on Jul 7, 2020 2 min read episode

Episode 9: Shiny Dev Center & Education with Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel

Shiny Dev Center & education tips with Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel
Last updated on Mar 10, 2020 2 min read episode

Episode 8: Exploring yonder

Recording of RStudio webinar: Exploring yonder
Last updated on Dec 8, 2019 1 min read episode

Episode 7: shinyWidgets and dreamRs

Recording of RStudio webinar: shinyWidgets and enhancing user interfaces
Last updated on Nov 28, 2019 1 min read episode

Episode 6: shinyjqui and advanced user interfaces

Recording of RStudio webinar: Advanced user interfaces and use cases of shinyjqui with Yang Tang
Last updated on Nov 1, 2019 1 min read episode
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Eric Nantz

Creator & Host

Behind the Screen

Eric Nantz is a statistician in life sciences who has been using R since 2004. Eric quickly developed a passion for using and learning more about R due in large part to the brilliant community and its free and open source heritage, much like his favorite operating system Linux. In particular, Shiny has become one of his favorite R packages in his daily work and personal projects! In addition to this series, Eric is also the creator and host of the R-Podcast

Interests

  • Open Source
  • Data Science
  • Technology
  • The R Community

Education

  • PhD in Statistics, 2008

    Western Michigan University

  • MSc in Statistics, 2005

    Western Michigan University

  • BSc in Statistics and Computer Science, 2002

    Grand Valley State University

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Curtis Kephart

Community Lead

RStudio

Curtis Kephart is RStudio’s Community Organizer. He is an economist by training (think: applied statistician and market engineer) and works closely with RStudio’s marketing team. Besides using R every day, he travels for fun a lot (15 countries last year) and backcountry camp.

Interests

  • Open Source
  • The R Community

Education

  • PhD International Economics, 2015

    University of California Santa Cruz

  • M.A., International Economics, 2011

    University of California Santa Cruz

  • B.A., Business Management Economics, 2003

    University of California Santa Cruz