Keywords: Shiny, R, web, data visualization
Shiny is a tool for creating web applications with R. In this talk, I will show some of the varied ways that Shiny can be used for interacting with data. Many of these ways of using Shiny are web-centric, such as dashboards that provide an overview of a data set, and web-based interfaces for analyzing data. But that's not the only way Shiny can be used -- it can also be used to create graphical tools that are invoked from the R console, to assist in workflows that primarily involve writing R code. I will discuss the challenges that you might face in these different use cases, and how to deal with them. I will also talk about some recent developments that we have made with Shiny.