Chapter 7 Communicate

In Data Science our role is to be translators. We are tasked with translating buisness-driven inquires to discovering implicit knowledge from data and transforming knowledge into actionable results.

7.1 Tools for Communication and Reproducible Research

• knitr: Provides a general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R using Literate Programming techniques.

• rmarkdown: Convert R Markdown documents into a variety of formats (HTML, Word, PDF, Notebooks, Presentaions, dashboards).

• Bookdown (meta): Output formats and utilities for authoring books with R Markdown.

• shiny: Makes it incredibly easy to build interactive web applications with R. Automatic “reactive” binding between inputs and outputs and extensive pre-built widgets make it possible to build beautiful, responsive, and powerful applications with minimal effort.

• flexdashboard: Format for converting an R Markdown document to a grid oriented dashboard. The dashboard flexibly adapts the size of it’s components to the containing web page.