Creating Biomedical Dashboards with R Shiny

2 credits, Fall Semester

Biomedical research projects and pipelines often generate output that requires additional interpretation or benefit from interactive and customizable summarization. Web-based dashboards are a convenient way of providing an easy interface to interact with this data, eliminating the need for direct interaction with the underlying data processing.

This course will teach you Shiny, a powerful dashboard framework on top of R that lets you build custom, web-based applications that can serve as a front-end to any R code. You will learn how to build apps from scratch or convert existing R scripts into a Shiny application.

Students will need to enter the class with foundational R programming skills to start writing Shiny applications. Familiarity with Git and GitHub is highly recommended as this is how course materials and assignments in this class will be distributed and evaluated.

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Faculty

PJ Van Camp

PJ Van Camp, MD, PhD

Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics
Curriculum Fellow in Biomedical Informatics

Gehlenborg Lab

Fall 2024

Meeting Time: Thursdays, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Room: TBD

First Class Meeting: Thursday, October 24, 2024

Last Class Meeting: Thursday, December 12, 2024

NO CLASS: Thursday, November 28, 2024, for Thanksgiving Recess

Cross-Registration

Students who are not in the Master of Medical Sciences in Biomedical Informatics program who wish to cross-register for this course must submit a  petition in my.harvard that summarizes their interest in the course and how they have acquired foundational R programming skills. Space for cross-registrants in this course is limited. Cross-reg petitions will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis at a TBA date in August, 2024. Students can and should submit petitions before this date, but they will not be approved ahead of time. 

For questions regarding cross-registration, please contact mbi@hms.harvard.edu with the subject line "BMI 709 cross-registration".