Create an R interface that is easyfor the user and just "works"
Plotly is awesome - R package easiest implementation of quick, great interactive graphics - but still bound to plotly.js and its implementations
Carson Sievert: plotly
My opinion: ggplotly reinforces
ggplot2 > base
Leo Collado Torres: shinycsv and eQTL browsing
- Interactive Graphics are good, but have some drawbacks
- Re-use other tools
- Make it fast and simple
- Iterative
- Minimize user options: make a decision
- Make interactive beer contests
Yesteryears in R: PDF with multiple images
Sean Kross: p5
- Use htmlwidgets: 10 lines of JS code
- enough JS to be dangerous?
- Models are hard
- Maybe use shape people vs. people people
- Formula syntax to pass JS-type variables
Interactive Graphics are Hard
Interactive Graphics are were Hard
- ggobi/xgobi
- plotly (and
ggplotly) - htmlwidgets
- Shiny
- manipulate
- ggvis/vegalite
- rCharts
- leaflet
- rbokeh: http://hafen.github.io/rbokeh/
- trelliscope: http://deltarho.org/docs-trelliscope/
- crosstalk: http://rstudio.github.io/crosstalk/
- googleVis
- p5*
But I don't use R!
- Python has a lot of implementations similar to what we've discussed
- Dash: Interactive, reactive web apps in pure python (from Plotly)
- Stata: stata2leaflet, stata2d3, gchart (never have used them)
- SAS - ActiveX? - not easy to disseminate
- Tableau
Interactive Graphics are
"Catching up to the 90s"
(Di Cook)
Use of interactive graphics is increasing
(I think)
Custom Interactive Graphics are Still Hard
- GGobi is the standard to ascribe to in many ways (I haven't used extensively)
- Implementing many of these widgets for HTML would be good
- *cough* PhD Thesis *cough*
- Need to teach these tools
Some rules for using interactive graphics
- Make it simple
- Give few choices, if any
- Ask for specific feedback
- Make it fast, use tools available even if clunky.
- I tend to use Shiny to prototype
- then ask people better than JS to help
Shiny Apps are good
call them something else
"Interactive Website"?
Collaboration and interactive graphics
- Shiny is good, but can't be emailed, need server (DO)
- HTML and JavaScript is backended for most (or all) of what we discussed
- Collaborators still want to know "how can I put in my presentation"
- GH Pages - free hosting! Also, standalone HTML
- Make it, then ask if it's OK to take some time to do it
Publishing Interactive Graphics in Papers
Faculty Office Hour
Questions to the speakers
- How did you learn these skills (class vs. on own)?
- Where does someone start?
- How do you convince collaborators of the investment in time/energy/adapting HTML?