lenaleuih / interactive_viz

data visualization deployed to shinyapps

Interactive Visualization

Allowing students to explore aspects of complex data rather than simply telling them what you see can be a powerful tool for learning as explored in the readings. Within the RStudio universe this functionality is accomplished through the Shiny ecosystem. A web-app designing interface that allows web-apps to be built from within R with limited knowledge of javascript or html.

This project builds a couple of basic Shiny Apps with interactive visualization of some mid-term test data

installations and setup

Go to the Shiny Apps hosting service and set up an account. Transfer your visualization to the RStudio servers according to the instructions here.

Step-by-step instructions for building a Shiny App

install.packages("shiny")
library(shiny)

usages

• Be familiar with the ways that data visualization can aid student learning
• Understand the structure of a Shiny App
• Be able to build a basic Shiny App to run locally on your machine
• Be able to explore interactive functionality within a Shiny App to convey a message about data

References

• Shiny Apps Documentation

• Verbert, K., Duval, E., Klerkx, J., Govaerts, S., & Santos, J. L. (2013). Learning Analytics Dashboard Applications. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(10), 1500–1509.

• Corrin, L., & de Barba, P. (2014). Exploring students’ interpretation of feedback delivered through learning analytics dashboards. In Proceedings of the Ascilite 2014 Conference.