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March 5, 2021 67 mins
In episode 17 of the Shiny Developer Series, we welcome one of the earliest contributors to the Shiny ecosystem and the founder of AttaliTech, Dean Attali! In this illuminating conversation, you will hear all about how Dean arrived to the world of Shiny, updates to his excellent open-source packages like {shinyalert} and the brand-new {shinyscreenshot}, the origins of Attali Tech, and his new journey to becoming a full-time open-source R and Shiny developer!
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Episode Timestamps
0:00 Episode introduction (with a special guest)
1:42 Dean's Introduction
3:52 Getting started with R and Shiny
7:57 shinyjs and custom JavaScript in Shiny apps. Tooling to create developer tools for Shiny apps. htmlwidgets, reactR
11:17 shinyscreenshot, released 2020-11-05, allows you to capture screenshots of entire pages or parts of pages in Shiny apps, and have the image downloaded as a PNG automatically.
18:42 Shiny Alert update
21:07 Attali Tech and becoming a Shiny Consultant.
22:37 teaser “go full shiny, full time”
23:42 Who Uses Shiny?
24:37 Where Attali Tech is headed. 2019 was dominated by a large set of clients, and Dean didn’t have enough time to contribute more to open source Data Science and Shiny in particular. Moving forward, Dean’s goal is to spend more time on his open source projects. He is se
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