Publications by Dario Radečić

PowerBI vs. R Shiny: Two Popular Excel Alternatives Compared

29.10.2020

tl;dr Choosing the appropriate dashboarding/reporting/BI tool has never harder than it is now, as there are plenty of genuinely great options such as R Shiny, PowerBI, and Tableau. Today we’ll compare two widely used tools at Fortune 500 companies: PowerBI – a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn u...

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Basic Multipage Routing for R Shiny Apps: shiny.router

24.11.2020

How to use shiny.router to implement routing in Shiny apps, plus some tips on styling Web applications couldn’t exist without routing. Think about it in terms of a website — you visit a home page, navigate to the blog, and open a particular article. That’s routing in a nutshell — matching UI components to a URL. shiny.router pa...

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Basic Multipage Routing Tutorial for Shiny Apps: shiny.router

24.11.2020

Basic Routing for Shiny Web Applications Web applications couldn’t exist without routing. Think about it in terms of the Appsilon website – you’ve visited our home page, navigated to the blog, and opened this particular article. That’s routing in a nutshell – matching UI components to a URL. Appsilon released the open source shiny.route...

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3 Top Business Intelligence Tools Compared: Tableau, PowerBI, and Sisense

26.11.2020

Business Intelligence (BI) is used to transform data into actionable insights that provide value to an organization and help achieve its business goals. Reports and dashboards are go-to approaches for modern-day business intelligence tools. At Appsilon, we are big advocates of R and R Shiny, but we also have significant experience with business i...

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What Can You Do With R? 6 Essential R Packages for Programmers

01.12.2020

How can a programmer benefit from using R? Here are 6 essential packages. R is a programming language created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993. It was designed for analytics, statistics, and data visualizations. Nowadays, R can handle anything from basic programming to machine learning and deep learning. R performs the best when applied...

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What Can I Do With R? 6 Essential R Packages for Programmers

01.12.2020

R is a programming language created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993. It was designed for analytics, statistics, and data visualizations. Nowadays, R can handle anything from basic programming to machine learning and deep learning. Today we will explore how to approach learning and practicing R for programmers. As mentioned before, R ca...

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How to Make Impressive Dashboards in Under 10 Minutes with Shiny

03.12.2020

Dashboard development doesn’t have to be hard. Dashboards allow you to structure reports intuitively and break them down into easy-to-read chunks. As a result, end-users can navigate and explore data much easier than with traditional reports. The shinydashboard R package has been out for ages, and it is a good option with a decent amount of f...

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How to Make Impressive Shiny Dashboards in Under 10 Minutes with semantic.dashboard

03.12.2020

Introducing semantic.dashboard Dashboards allow you to structure reports intuitively and break them down into easy-to-read chunks. As a result, end-users can navigate and explore data much easier than with traditional reports. The shinydashboard R package has been out for ages, and it is a good option with a decent amount of features. However, ap...

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How to Make Stunning Bar Charts in R: A Complete Guide with ggplot2

07.12.2020

Make data visualization people will remember. The only guide for R you’ll need. The language of data visualization is universal. Not everyone will recognize a great visualization, but everyone will remember a terrible one. If you use tools and techniques discussed in this article, the chances for your visualization to be classified as “terri...

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How to Make Stunning Bar Charts in R: A Complete Guide with ggplot2

07.12.2020

Bar Charts with R  The language of data visualization is universal. Not everyone will recognize a great visualization, but everyone will remember a terrible one. If you use tools and techniques discussed in this article, the chances for your visualization to be classified as “terrible” will be close to zero. Want to make your workflow more p...

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