The transformative effects of Shiny with the coronaSweeper app

The Shiny Developer Series spotlight on the 2021 Shiny Contest continues with episode 28! Eric is joined by statistics lecturer Dr. Kate Saunders to share her unique coronaSweeper Shiny application which merges a well-known mini-game in the Windows world with modelling the spread of COVID19. On the surface it might seem straight-forward, but Kate walks us through her extensive design ideas of the algorithms and user experience of the application frontend. This was a very inspiring conversation that demonstrates the ways Shiny can be transformative to teaching real principles in mathematics, statistics, and beyond!

Resources mentioned in the episode

• coronaSweeper App - katerobsau.shinyapps.io/Corona_Sweeper
• coronaSweeper Code - github.com/katerobsau/coronaSweeper
• Kate's contest submission post: community.rstudio.com/t/coronasweeper-shiny-contest-submission/104767
• Follow Kate on Twitter - @katerobsau

Episode Timestamps

00:00:00 Episode Introduction

00:04:45 Inspiration behind coronaSweeper

00:08:15 Demo of coronaSweeper

00:14:35 Code walkthrough

00:43:10 Shiny for teaching?

00:50:20 Episode wrapup