Interactive Quarto Dashboards
Hands-on workshop with Derek Sollberger
Registered Attendees (116)
On August 24, 2025, R-Ladies Rome hosted Interactive Quarto Dashboards, a collaborative and beginner-friendly workshop led by Derek Sollberger, lecturer at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning and Posit Certified Tidyverse Instructor.
📊 Workshop Overview
In this easy-going workshop, participants explored how to build interactive web-based dashboards that enable teams—whether in academic or business settings—to present information via multiple graphs and tables. The session covered techniques to filter, sort, visualize data, uncover trends, and present results with both function and aesthetic appeal using R, Quarto, Shiny, Markdown, and geospatial data. Some prior programming experience was helpful, though not required.
🎥 Recording
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Whether you’re a researcher, designer, or data enthusiast, this recording is packed with practical tools you can adapt immediately.
🧠 What You’ll Learn
- How to assemble interactive dashboards using Quarto and Shiny
- Methods for effective data presentation: filtering, sorting, and trend exploration
- Techniques for adding geospatial data and aesthetic polish to your dashboards
📦 Resources & Materials
Workshop slides and code (GitHub):
R-Ladies Rome Intro Presentation: https://rladiesrome.quarto.pub/august242025
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🔊 About the Speaker
Derek Sollberger is a lecturer at CSML (Center for Statistics and Machine Learning), specializing in Data Science, AI Methods, and Bayesian Analysis. A Posit Certified Tidyverse Instructor, Derek brings experience from leading R workshops and consulting on pedagogy-driven data projects.
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