Open Source Programming Courses
Dynamic Business Intelligence Apps in R with Shiny and mapgl
Geospatial professionals and R users interested in building web mapping apps and dashboards.
Students must have R, Shiny, Mapbox GL JS (through R), and MapLibre GL JS (through R).
- Using Mapbox and MapLibre with Shiny in mapgl
- Building an election explorer
- Dynamic business apps
This 2.5 hour workshop will give you the tools to build dynamic and fast business intelligence applications using R, Shiny, and the brand-new mapgl R package. mapgl is designed to empower your Shiny development, and this workshop will contain insights not found anywhere else.
In the first hour, you’ll gain the skills necessary to build high-performance web mapping apps with Mapbox and MapLibre from the comfort of R and Shiny. Add performant layers to your maps, and use Shiny’s interactivity to create smooth map animations for your users.
The second hour will delve deeper into special functionality built-in to mapgl to help you achieve native JavaScript-level performance in your Shiny apps. You’ll learn how to dynamically query and re-style your data on the fly, and build business intelligence tools that help users query and interact with your data with no performance lag.
We cover three “mini-projects” in the workshop to help you learn how to use mapgl in Shiny. You’ll create an animated “globe explorer” app; you’ll build apps to analyze data for the 2020 US Presidential election; and you’ll create a business intelligence tool for a coffee shop chain.
The last part of the workshop was a live question-and-answer session where participants asked a wide range of questions about R, Shiny, and mapgl.
What you’ll get:
- Unlimited access to the workshop recording and chat log for future use.
- A step-by-step annotated tutorial in Quarto format to help you build your knowledge.
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