Interactive web-based data visualization with R, plotly, and shiny

Carson Sievert

2019-12-19

Welcome

This is the website for“Interactive web-based data visualization with R, plotly, and shiny”. In this book, you’ll gain insight and practical skills for creating interactive and dynamic web graphics for data analysis fromR. It makes heavy use ofplotly for rendering graphics, but you’ll also learn about otherR packages that augment a data science workflow, such as thetidyverse andshiny. Along the way, you’ll gain insight into best practices for visualization of high-dimensional data, statistical graphics, and graphical perception. By mastering these concepts and tools, you’ll impress your colleagues with your ability togenerate more informative, engaging, and repeatable interactive graphics using free software that you can share over email, export to pdf/png, and more.

An online version of this book, available athttps://plotly-r.com, is free to use and is licensed under theCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. If you’d like aphysical copy of the book, you can order it fromCRC Press andAmazon. Both the print and online versions of the book are written inrmarkdown withbookdown and those source files are available athttps://github.com/cpsievert/plotly_book. The online version will continue to evolve in between reprints of the physical book.