Appsilon

Pedro Silva | Styling Shiny with CSS & SASS and Speeding Up Shiny Apps | Posit

From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: in the first part of this talk I will discuss how to use CSS to give your application a fresh and unique look, while keeping your codebase clean and organized with SASS. During the second half I will discuss how to leverage Shiny update functions, proxy objects and JavaScript messages to speed up your dashboards.

About Pedro Silva: Pedro has nearly a decade of experience combining frontend and backend technologies, and is an expert on augmenting R Shiny dashboards with CSS and JavaScript.

Damian Rodziewicz | Scaling Shiny to Thousands of Users | RStudio

From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: in this talk I will discuss how to scale Shiny dashboards to thousands of users.

About Damian Rodziewicz: Damian is one of the four co-founders of Appsilon. Before founding Appsilon he worked at Accenture, UBS, Microsoft and Domino Data Lab.

Dominik Krzemiński | Appsilon’s Guide to Working With Open Source Shiny | RStudio

From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: There is no need to praise Shiny for its influence on interactive data visualisation. As with many other technology stacks, Shiny could benefit from community contributions for the further development of the package itself and the growth of independent packages that add new features. In this talk, I present some of the most popular Shiny extensions and explain what are the ways to help with developing Shiny-related tools.

About Dominik Krzemiński: Dominik is the Open Source Tech Lead at Appsilon where he enjoys contributing to open source tools, mainly in R and Python. He created shiny.i18n, shiny.semantic, and the TODOr package for R. He also participated in the Google Summer of Code, where he developed tools supporting neuroscience analyses. He’s also a fan of all kinds of board sports and capoeira.

Filip Stachura & Marek Rogala | Empowering Data Scientists to Build Spectacular Shiny Apps | RStudio

From rstudio::global(2021) Shiny X-Sessions, sponsored by Appsilon: in this talk, Appsilon’s CEO and CTO show their vision of challenges facing Shiny app authors and what is crucial to achieving success. They announce 3 key initiatives that Appsilon undertakes to empower data scientists to build spectacular Shiny Apps, including the {shiny.fluent} package.

About Filip Stachura: Filip is a CEO and a Co-founder of Appsilon. He holds a double degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Warsaw. He started his professional career at Microsoft in California. Passionate about data analysis, elegant visualisations and tackling hard algorithmic and analytical problems.

About Marek Rogala: Marek Rogala is the CTO at Appsilon, where he drives innovation in R and Shiny as well as Machine Learning. He previously did software engineering at Google and at Domino Data Lab, where he worked on enabling data scientists to experiment and collaborate effectively.: