From the course: Building Data Apps with R and Shiny: Essential Training

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Why build data apps with Shiny?

Why build data apps with Shiny?

From the course: Building Data Apps with R and Shiny: Essential Training

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Why build data apps with Shiny?

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- [Instructor] Shiny allows anyone who knows R to build web apps. It's an extremely short journey from learning R to building your very first web app with Shiny. You don't need to know anything about web development, HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, to build data-rich, interactive web applications with Shiny. Shiny allows data science and analysis teams to easily prototype data apps themselves without needing to involve other teams. This allows the team to fail fast and decide which tools are useful and minimize unnecessary dev effort. It's also possible for your Shiny apps to use any R package available from cloud. There aren't any compatibility issues or concerns. Just plug the analysis or visualization module you're using directly into your Shiny app. Shiny apps can be matured into fully featured tools without abandoning the Shiny core. Rstudio builds testing and profiling tools that me and you can assess and trust Shiny data apps in production. Your team can continue to own the…

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