Looking to hire a consultant with help on a building a Shiny project

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I am looking to connect with a consultant for hire who can help me build a Shiny app that will improve an administrative workflow of mine. I am an avid user of RStudio and the Tidyverse. As a Biology professor and department chair I use these tools nearly every day for my own scholarship, to administer lab data analysis projects in the Posit Cloud for ~75 lab groups per semester, teach in a stats class, and to analyze many different types of administrative data.

I would like to improve my workflow for how I create a teaching schedule for ~20 faculty. Our schedule is quite complex with different time blocks, room numbers, faculty members, course IDs, section numbers, and course types. I envision a Shiny App that my colleagues can interact with for double-checking our scheduled assignments, and maybe even a way for faculty to enter their preferences.

I'd like to meet with a consultant and go over the procedure I currently use to do this tedious, and highly error-prone task. I'm open to suggestions on how I can improve this task and make a better solution more repeatable for future schedule building. Please let me know if you might be able to help and are interested in hearing more about the task.

Thanks,

Craig

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Hi Craig,

This looks like an interesting prospect.
I'd like to work with you.
I am a Senior R Shiny Develeoper with 6+ years experience.
Please find below a couple of Shiny projects that I've worked on.

  1. A Shiny app developed in collaboration with Center for Global Development ( https://www.cgdev.org/development-in-2050 )
  2. A Shiny app developed for Leibnitz Institute for Psychology ( https://abitter.shinyapps.io/psychtopics/ )
    And this is an R package that I'm a co-author of Modules to Import and Manipulate Data in Shiny • datamods
    Finally, here is my github repo. shahreyar-abeer (Zauad Shahreer Abeer) · GitHub

You can email me at shahreyar.abeer@gmail.com

Thanks,
Zauad

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Dear Craig,

I have experience with R for the last 10 year and I started to work with shiny for approximately the last 4 years. I use R in my workflow everyday. I work in data earth science, specially with spatial meteorological data. I have some examples of shiny I and my team uses for different tasks (sadly the apps are in spanish):

For AWS data access and visualization of different products:
https://dsssmn.shinyapps.io/appWRF_AWS/

For spatial data precipitation analysis:
https://dsssmn.shinyapps.io/appEST_prcp/

For spatial data precipitation analysis (with Mongo DB access):
https://dsssmn.shinyapps.io/PanelQPE/

Here is my email to contact me: gonzalomartindiaz22@gmail.com

Thank you,

Kind regards,
Gonzalo

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Here is my github: Gonzalo1985 (Gonzalo Díaz) · GitHub

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Hi Gonzalo,

Sorry it’s taken me over a week to get back to you. I have many different irons in the fire and have come back to my want for a Shiny solution to my scheduling needs. Do you have time to meet tomorrow June 10th for a brief meeting of 15 minutes or less? You can schedule something on my calendar with the link below in my signature line.

Thanks,

Craig D. Byron, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

Professor and Chair

Department of Biology

Godsey Science Building 327

Mercer University

1501 Mercer University Drive

Macon, GA 31207

Phone # 478-301-2163

Fax # 478-301-2067

Need an appointment? Calendly

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Hi Craig,

This sounds like a great use case for Shiny and something I have tackled before in academic settings.
I work extensively with Shiny and have helped streamline similar complex scheduling systems.
Happy to take a look at your current process and suggest a scalable approach.

You can reach out to me on my email here

Colin