Publications by The Jumping Rivers Blog
We’re a British Data Awards 2023 Finalist
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been named a Finalist in the British Data Awards 2023. The British Data Awards is an annual quest to discover and celebrate data success stories. Organisations taking part this year range from FTSE 100 heavyweights, public sector pioneers, technology unicorns, fast-growing scale-ups, essential Not-For-Prof...
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SatRdays London is now Hybrid!
SatRdays London is fast approaching, and we have a couple of exciting announcements to share with you! Full program available now The full list of speakers and their abstracts can now be found in a downloadable program on our conference website, along with the schedule for the day and the registration options. Registration deadline extension The re...
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SatRdays London 2023: Sponsors
SatRdays London 2023 is fast approaching! Don’t miss out! Ticket sales close at midnight on 8th April! On 22nd April 2023 we will be hosting SatRdays London, an inclusive, low cost event, which gives R users an opportunity to network and learn from other experts across sectors. In a recent blog post, we introduced all of the speakers for the even...
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Alt Text in R: Plots, Reports, and Shiny
What is alt text? Alt text (short for alternative text) is text that describes the appearance and purpose of an image. Alt text has multiple purposes, the main one being that it aids visually impaired users to better understand your content when the alt text is read aloud by screen readers. Alt text is also used in place of an image if it fails to ...
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How to customise the style of your {shinydashboard} Shiny app
Using {shinydashboard} is great for creating dashboard prototypes with a header-sidebar-body layout. You can quickly mock up a professional looking dashboard containing a variety of outputs, including plots and tables. However, after a while, you’ll probably have had enough of the “50 shades of blue” default theme. Or, you might have been ask...
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Network Error Logging – Important Insights
This is the second in the series of blog posts about using server headers Content Security Policies Network Error Logging – this one! Heads up! We’re about to launch WASP, a Web Application Security Platform. The aim of WASP is to help you manage (well, you guessed it) the security of you application using Content Security Policy and Network ...
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SatRdays London 2023: Speakers
SatRdays London is fast approaching, and we are happy to announce our full lineup of speakers for the event! Read on for more info. If you want to join the fun, head over to the conference website to sign up! Data comes in all shapes and sizes. It can often be difficult to know where to start. Whatever your problem, Jumping Rivers can help. Keynote...
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SatRdays London 2023: Speakers
SatRdays London is fast approaching, and we are happy to announce our full lineup of speakers for the event! Read on for more info. If you want to join the fun, head over to the conference website to sign up! Data comes in all shapes and sizes. It can often be difficult to know where to start. Whatever your problem, Jumping Rivers can help. Keyn...
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Content Security Policy – Why You Need It
Heads up! We’re about to launch WASP, a Web Application Security Platform. The aim of WASP is to help you manage (well, you guessed it) the security of your Posit Connect application using Content Security Policy and Network Error Logging. More details soon, but if this interests you, please get in touch. This blog post is aimed at those who are...
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Why should I use R: The Excel R Data Wrangling comparison: Part 1
This is part 1 of an ongoing series on why you should use R. Future blogs will be linked here as they are released. The era of data manipulation and analysis using programming languages has arrived. But it can be tough to find the time and the right resources to fully switch over from more manual, time-consuming solutions, such as Excel. In this bl...
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