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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:

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Containerized Development Environment

Fully containerized development environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code!
Last updated on Dec 18, 2020 1 min read episode

Episode 17: Dean Attali

An enlightening view on the life of a Shiny consultant and giving back to the Shiny open-source community with Dean Attali!
Last updated on Dec 5, 2020 2 min read episode

Episode 16: Jiena Gu McLellan

Using Shiny and htmlwidgets to help out friends and work alike!
Last updated on Nov 21, 2020 1 min read episode

Episode 15: Maya Gans

Innovating in Life Sciences using Shiny & JavaScript magic with Maya Gans!
Last updated on Oct 22, 2020 2 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