Creating a Project Portfolio
- Guided Project
- 0.1 hours
- Intermediate
- R
Practice building an interactive Shiny app to showcase your R data analysis projects in a professional portfolio.
Overview
In this project, you'll assume the role of a data analyst tasked with creating an effective portfolio to showcase your skills to potential employers. Demonstrating your capabilities via individual R scripts and analyses can be challenging. You'll solve this by building an interactive Shiny app that compiles your guided projects from Dataquest R courses into one impressive portfolio.
You'll apply your Shiny skills to incorporate R Markdown files, use utility functions, customize your app's appearance, and deploy it for easy sharing. The end result will be a professional, interactive portfolio that brings your data cleaning, visualization, and analysis skills to life. You'll learn to highlight key projects, providing tangible evidence of your R programming proficiency to enhance your job prospects.
Objective: Build an interactive Shiny portfolio app that effectively showcases your R data analysis skills and projects to potential employers.
What You'll Learn
- ✓ Create a Shiny app to showcase your guided projects
Before You Start
- ✓ Understanding the structure and components of a Shiny app
- ✓ Creating inputs and outputs in the Shiny user interface
- ✓ Programming the server logic to connect inputs and outputs in Shiny
- ✓ Extending Shiny apps with additional features
Project Steps
11 steps
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Planning the App
- 3 Building out The Navigation Bar
- 4 Incorporate RMarkdown Files into the Interface
- 5 Creating Our Splash Page
- 6 Creating a Skeleton for the Project Pages
- 7 A Useful Utility Function
- 8 Incorporating Our Project Pages into the App
- 9 Creating Our Resume Page
- 10 Deploying to shinyapps.io
- 11 Further Steps
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