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

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

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

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

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

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

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