Required reading

You are expected to have read these items before class. Most of these linked sections/chapters are quite short.

Plotly

Please read the following sections of Interactive web-based data visualization with R, plotly, and shiny, by Carson Sievert:

• Creating Views (Plotly features): Sections 1-3, 5-7
• Publishing Views: Sections 9-12
• Arranging and Animating Views: Sections 13-14
• Linking Multiple Data Views: Sections 15
• Server-side linking with Shiny: Section 17

Shiny

• Introduction to Interactive Documents: provides a quick guide to getting started with Shiny.

Dashboards

• Chapter 5: Dashboards (Layout, Components, Shiny) from R Markdown: The Definitive Guide, Yihui Xie, J. J. Allaire, Garrett Grolemund, provides a guide for using Shiny with flexdashboard to create interactive documents from R Markdown

Optional reading

Interactive visualization

• The official Shiny website includes extensive articles, tutorials, and examples.
• Coursera course on developing data products, sessions on Shiny, GoogleVis, and Plotly

Data visualization best practices

• Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction, Kieran Healy
• Fundamentals of Data Visualization, Claus O. Wilke