In this chapter you will learn how R Markdown and the flexdashboard package are used to create a dashboard, and how to customize the layout of components on your dashboard.

Welcome to the course!

Components of a dashboard

Anatomy of a flexdashboard

Generating a dashboard

Adding charts

Layout basics

Column widths

Row orientation

Advanced layouts

Tabsets

Pages

Menus

Dashboard Layouts

This chapter will introduce the many options for including data visualizations in your dashboard. You'll learn about how to optimize your plots for display on the web.

Graphs

Static Graph

Graph Sizing

Web-friendly visualizations

Static vs. web-friendly

Make a plot web-friendly

Explore web-friendly features

htmlwidgets

Add a leaflet map

Add a leaflet map directly from dataframe

Data Visualization for Dashboards

In this chapter you will learn about other components that will allow you to create a complete dashboard. This includes ways to present everything from a single value to a complete dataset.

Highlighting single values

Create value box

Create gauge

Color indicators

Linking

Dashboard Tables

Static table

Web-friendly table

DT::datatable

Text for Dashboards

Captions

Captions with Inline Code

Storyboards

Storyboard Commentary

Dashboard Components

This chapter will demonstrate how you can use Shiny to make your dashboard interactive. You'll keep working with the San Francisco bike sharing data and build a dashboard for exploring this data set.

Incorporating Shiny into Dashboards

What adding Shiny to a flexdashboard means

Converting our flexdashboard to use Shiny

The reactive dataframe pattern

Adding Sidebar

Adding User Input

Making the Dataframe Reactive

Making a Chart React to Inputs

Making All Charts React to Inputs

Customized inputs for charts

Apply Input to Single Chart

Move Input to Chart Box

Create Global Input Sidebar

Course Recap

Adding Interactivity with Shiny

San Francisco bike share data

San Francisco bike share station data

Communication is a key part of the data science process. Dashboards are a popular way to present data in a cohesive visual display. In this course you'll learn how to assemble your results into a polished dashboard using the flexdashboard package. This can be as simple as adding a few lines of R Markdown to your existing code, or as rich as a fully interactive Shiny-powered experience. You will learn about the spectrum of dashboard creation tools available in R and complete this course with the ability to produce a professional quality dashboard.

Building Web Applications with Shiny in R

In this course you'll learn how to create static and interactive dashboards using flexdashboard and shiny.

Building Dashboards with flexdashboard

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Components of a dashboard

Building Dashboards with flexdashboard

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