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Shiny is an application development solution that helps businesses with creating, maintaining, and customizing interactive, data-focused webpages, dashboards, documents, and apps. The main features of Shiny include a graphical...
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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Build outstanding interactive web apps
We used Shiny to develop a web application to ingest data from the source system and create interactive dashboards to display the consolidated reports to stakeholders. Users were able to interact with the app. The visuals allowed the business to communicate the insights with necessary people. We could leverage the analytical capability of R to add further value to businesses. We automated multiple processes to save man-hours, published reports across the firm and performed predictive and time series analytics to add value.
Pros
Near real-time reporting: When data is changed, visualisations are refreshed rapidly due to the low latency
Minimal knowledge to get started: HTML, CSS knowledge isn't necessary
Automation: Reports can be automated by following a preset procedural flow
Analytical capability: Strong data analytical capability to extract insights
Pricing: open source
Community support: a lot of documentation, use cases and demos available online
Cons
Administrative privileges: need the functionality to provide role wise and rule wise access
Limitation in usage: Specific number of hours available for your app in the free version
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Shiny has been a day to day problem solution
I enjoy working with Shiny. Well designed, the commands are very simple and intuitive. The incorporation of the web design has helped me a lot to understand how my job might impact to others
Pros
We are already familiarized with Shiny. It is in every app I use! Now, managing it for my job, and creating more tools has been amazing. I love how easy it is to develop my codes and the language reduction
Cons
I'm not a huge fan of how "hide" it is. R has been always a bit complex for me so, adapting to R, is a bit complicated but worth it once you get familiar with it
- Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Great tool for developing highly-custom data apps
Overall, we had a great experience utilizing Shiny in some of our analytics projects. Limiting its use for the right use cases, we're able to take advantage of its flexibility and relative ease-of-use for R programmers who aren't necessarily good at web development.
Pros
I like how Shiny makes app development a whole lot easier for R programmers.
Cons
While it's great for building custom data apps, it's not necessarily ideal for BI workflows. It's prohibitively complex for creating simple dashboards. Other than that, there's not much I dislike about Shiny.
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- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great performance.
As an addition of R Studio package, Shiny is a great software to create new ways to present data and do a more sophisticated analysis.
Pros
Linking your desktop work in a available webpage is a great opportunity to enhance the reach of your work. The interphase helps to all your work flowing.
Cons
Linking three softwares (R, RStudio and Shiny) can be troublesome at the beginning.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Code like a pro!
You can explore new ways to code using Shiny as your regular tool.
Pros
For me is an improvement to the experience of coding, the visuals are great and make you feel more comfortable while coding.
Cons
Nothing, all about it is great, an all of it for free.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Excellent!
Excellent! You can create your own apps, customize to make your work look professional and aesthetic.
Pros
This extension of R is a great way to improve your coding skills, and way better with a practical and beautiful interfase.
Cons
The tutorial can be more advertised, it is not at first sight.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Very helpful!
When you learn how to code, you can start to improve your work, and this package of R is a great help to apply your knowledge and advance you progress beyond your imagination!
Pros
The visuals are beautiful, and it is very intuitive for the ones that start to develop his own apps, and for someone as old as me, it is a tool that help you to gain confident in coding.
Cons
It is difficult for me to work the codes online, but with enough practice, you can do what you put your mind!
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Just perfect!
Excellent! You can improve your data and graphical analysis, making very pro-looking reports.
Pros
As a new user of software for coding, Shiny is very helpful with its visual interfase, making very easy to learn.
Cons
The organization of the interfase can be confusing at the beginning.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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I like to learn how to code.
Its a great app that helps you to increase your knowledge.
Pros
I like to use it to improve my skills in coding and create new apps.
Cons
Sometimes it bugs outs and do not show how to solve it.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Shiny is extremely useful for data visualization of big data projects
Pros
It is easy to create a minimally working unit. It is fun and extremely useful to create interactive figures for collaborators.
Cons
Figuring out how to publish the Shiny application online was difficult at first. But it has gotten a lot easier with the integration with RStudio.
