Cancer Center Data Science

Interactive Analysis with Shiny

Phil Bowsher

Free & Open-Source Software…

For data science, scientific research, and technical communication….

To enhance the production and consumption of knowledge by everyone,

regardless of economic means.

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PBC & Name Change

Posit believes that corporations should be run for the benefit of all of their stakeholders including employees, customers, and the community at large. Consequently, posit is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and a Certified B Corporation®

• Open Source Software for Data Science 2020
• PBC Impact Score
• RStudio: 2022 and Beyond

Python Pandas creator Wes McKinney joins Posit

• Building Open Source, Sustainably
• “I believe the company’s mantras of technical excellence, sustainable growth, and supporting the public good position it to be a force for progress and innovation in the data science world for many years to come.”
• “As I considered how I could best position myself to continue making an impact in the open source data science ecosystem for a long period of time, the choice was obvious”

Code-First Data Science

\[ \text{Building your analyses with code} + \text{Reproducibility, Adapted, Scaled } \]

• Productionalize data science
• Software development happens in an IDE
• Version Control for tracking Code
• End to End Example Access to Care
• Unity Health Toronto: Tools for developing & deploying algorithms in the hospital & Here

Interactive Data Science

Communicate Clearly!

• Turn Data into an Interactive Experience

• Html Widgets for R

• Observable, Python etc.

Reproducible Research - Interactive

• Notebooks (Jupyter)
• Dashboards (Quarto)
• Data Visualizations (HTML, Javascript etc.)

Reproducible Research

Tools to Communicate Research

• Quarto

  • Markdown
  • Scientific and Technical Computing
  • Language Agnostic
  • Various Output Formats

Reproducible Research - Open

Same Content. Many Mediums

Open Source!

• Dashboards
• Books
• Papers
• Websites

Shiny

Photo credit: Matthew Henry on Unsplash

Shiny for…

• Fast Agile Development

• Enterprise Scalability

• Incorporate Data Science Workflows

• Custom Visualizations

Many Ways to Approuch Shiny

• Shiny via R (Quarto too)
• Shiny with Reticulate
• Shiny for Python
• Shinylive enables the creation of serverless Shiny applications with R & Python
• AI and Shiny for Python

Interactive Data Science - UI Editor

• Reduce time-to-build

• Still leverage code-based tools

• Pretty UI

GitHub Copilot in RStudio IDE

Open Source in Pharma

• 17 Workshops all free, put on by members of the community
• 4500 registrations, 76 countries
• Credly Credentials for completion.
• R/Pharma Conference Oct 21-25
• Also…R/Medicine 2024 June 10-14 & Schedule

Posit Cloud

• Free Mastering Shiny Book

Photo credit: Posit Cloud

Shiny in Healthcare

Shiny Healthcare Use Cases

• National Cancer Institute NCI Analysis Tools Available as R Shiny Applications

• California Department of Public Health & App & Code

• Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment & nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02232-w & Shiny in production & Webinar

• Improving Monitoring of Patients’ Safety During Clinical Trials &

• Vanderbilt Health & IT Innovation Award

• Using Shiny in Healthcare

It’s About the People

Thank you!

@philbowsher

@philbowsher@linkedin.com