communication.Rmd

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# (PART) Communication & Special Topics {-} 

# Communication

Communication of research is central to environmental data science, and while this
can use many venues such as professional meetings and publications, outreach on the
internet is especially important. This chapter will delve into probably the best
way to build a web site for communicating our research:  **Shiny**.

In short, Shiny is used for building interactive web apps. It's from the RStudio folks, 
who provide some useful resources for building a Shiny app: 

<a href="https://shiny.rstudio.com">https://shiny.rstudio.com</a>
<a href="https://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial">https://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial</a>

Hosting is the one challenge, though you can host on shinyapps.io.  

<a href="https://www.shinyapps.io/">https://www.shinyapps.io/</a>

which is free for 5 apps, 25 hours usage/month.

*[TODO: Add some examples of Shiny app code, though can't be run in bookdown,
maybe creating a Shiny Rmarkdown script with `runtime: shiny` to access via
a code package??]*