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. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 Planning the App
  3. 3 Building out The Navigation Bar
  4. 4 Incorporate RMarkdown Files into the Interface
  5. 5 Creating Our Splash Page
  6. 6 Creating a Skeleton for the Project Pages
  7. 7 A Useful Utility Function
  8. 8 Incorporating Our Project Pages into the App
  9. 9 Creating Our Resume Page
  10. 10 Deploying to shinyapps.io
  11. 11 Further Steps

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