For most web developers the switch from desktop or laptop to mobile device will be something they do most days. We know what a designed-only-for-desktop experience feels like on a mobile device an...

This is part two of our three part series Part 1: Recreating the Shiny App tutorial with a Plumber API + React: Part 1 Part 2: Recreating the Shiny App tutorial with a Plumber API + React: Part 2 (this post) Part 3: Recreating the Shiny App tutorial with a Plumber API + React: Part 3 (to be published) ...

At Jumping Rivers, we love data science! Surprised? Didn’t think so … But, did you know that as well as providing training and consultancy, we also like to get involved with the data ...

This is part one of our three part series Part 1: Recreating the Shiny App tutorial with a Plumber API + React: Part 1 (this post) Part 2: Recreating the Shiny App tutorial with a Plumber API + React: Part 2 (to be published) Part 3: Recreating the Shiny App tutorial with a Plumber API + React: Part 3 (...

Introduction RStudio Workbench provides a development environment for R, Python, and many other languages. When developing a performant web application you may progress from Shiny towards tools li...

If you’re based in the North East of England and you’re looking for a place to discuss all things R with like-minded people, then you might want to check out the North East Data Scient...

Choosing which colours to use in a plot is an important design decision. A good choice of colour palette can highlight important aspects of your data, but a poor choice can make it impossible to i...

At Jumping Rivers, we have a wealth of experience developing and maintaining Shiny applications. Over the past year, we have been maintaining a Shiny application for the World Health Organization ...

Registration is now open! Organisation is now well under way for Shiny in Production on 6th-7th October! Our events team here at Jumping Rivers have been hard at work to make sure the conference i...

If you came here looking for an introduction to water, or a synopsis of the 2003 TV series about teenage mermaids you have sadly come to the wrong place. The H2O that we will talk about is H2O.ai,...

The trainers here at Jumping Rivers have been busy developing a host of new courses for your programming pleasure! We have recently developed several new courses, which are now available to view o...

Maintaining training materials Over the last few years, we increased both the number and types of training courses we offer. In addition to our usual R courses in {dplyr} and {shiny}, we also offe...

Web applications that are Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliant are becoming an increasingly prominent part of my role as a data scientist as the importance of ensuring that data products are available to all takes a more central focus. This is particularly true in the case of building solutions ...

Save the Date: 4th-5th October This October, Jumping Rivers will be holding our in-person Shiny in Production conference! Hosted in the centre of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, this conference will delv...

An accessible website is more than putting content online. Making a website accessible means ensuring that it can be used by as many people as possible. Accessibility standards such as the Web Con...

Introduction If you’ve ever visited any food establishment in England & Wales, you’ve probably noticed the green labels somewhere on the outside with a Food Hygiene Rating from 0-5 on it. If y...

You know that sinking feeling that you get when you’re months into a big project and you log in one day and nothing works? Turns out something has updated and things have been removed that y...

The daffodils are out, the sun is shining(ish), spring is in the air! And that means that it’s time to start planning for the conference season. This year we’ll be treated to a lot more in person ...

R-4.2.0 is due to be released! Another year has passed, which means an updated version of R is due to be released - R version 4.2.0. As usual there have been many changes and improvements over the last year. This blog post only picks out a tiny handful, but there are ...

R version 4.0.0 was released almost two years ago. The change in the major version, 3.x.y to 4.0.0, represented significant and potentially breaking changes. For an organisation to start using the...