Episode 17: A Simply Radiant Chat With Vincent Nijs

Posted on Thursday, Feb 4, 2016 | Category: Podcast

The R-Podcast continues its series on Shiny and the first-ever Shiny Developer Conference by catching up with Vincent Nijs, associate professor of marketing at UC San Diego and one of the earliest adopters of Shiny. Some of the topics we cover include his journey to using R, his motivation and process for developing the Radiant Shiny application used by his students to perform business analytics, and how he would like to involve the community to add new capabilities to Radiant. I hope you enjoy this episode and thanks for listening!

Show Notes

Radiant documentation and GitHub repo
Using selectize input in Shiny applications article
Recommendations for new R users: ggplot2, dplyr, pipes with magrittr or pipeR

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Music Credits

Opening and closing themes: Training Montage by WillRock from the Return All Robots Remix Album at ocremix.org

Guests

Vincent Nijs

Vincent Nijs is an associate professor of marketing within the Rady school of management at the University of California San Diego. Within the R community Vincent is best known for his highly innovative radiant web-based tool for teaching business analytics built with R and shiny.

Hosts

Eric Nantz

Eric Nantz is a principal research scientist at a large life sciences company, creating innovative analytical pipelines and capabilities supporting study designs and analyses. Outside of his day job, Eric is passionate about connecting with the R community as the creator/host of the R-Podcast, Shiny Developer Series, and a curator / podcast host for the R Weekly project. Plus, he likes to share his adventures with R and general computing on Twitch livestreams at twitch.tv/rpodcast.