Creating Biomedical Dashboards with R Shiny

2 credits, Fall Semester and Spring 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: TMEC 227

First Class Meeting: Thursday, October 24, 2024

Last Class Meeting: Thursday, December 12, 2024

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

For the first meeting only on October 24, this class will meet in TMEC 106. All subsequent course meetings will meet in TMEC 227. 

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 beginning  August 26, 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".

Spring 2025

Room: TBA

Meeting Time: Thursdays, 9am - 11am

First Class Meeting: Thursday, January 30, 2025

Last Class Meeting: Thursday, March 13, 2025

Cross-Registration

Registration for HMS courses is not available until January 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 may be limited. Cross-reg petitions will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis beginning January 24, 2025. 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".