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Matt Dancho (Business Science) Profile picture
@mdancho84
Sep 17, 2022 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Shiny is a powerful tool that data scientists can use for web apps & production.

But most data scientists struggle.

Here are 7 resources on shiny that helped me.

#rstats #shiny #excel #python
1. The Shiny website

The 1st place to go to learn shiny.

shiny.rstudio.com
2. Flexdashboard website

Flexdashboard combines Rmarkdown & Shiny to make quick apps.

pkgs.rstudio.com/flexdashboard/
3. Shiny Widgets gallery

See dozens of example reactive widget input / outputs for shiny

shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/widget…
4. shinyWidgets by dreamrs

Advanced & customizable reactive widgets that can really take your shiny apps to the next level

dreamrs.github.io/shinyWidgets/i…
5. HTML Widgets

Interactive visuals for shiny apps

htmlwidgets.org/showcase_leafl…
6. Shiny JS

Makes it easy to add JavaScript actions to your shiny apps.

deanattali.com/shinyjs/
7. Bslib

Upgrade shiny From Bootstrap 3 to 4 or 5 and makes it easy to make custom themes.

rstudio.github.io/bslib/
And if you want all of these 7 R packages plus 93 more in one consolidated #cheatsheet, download my ultimate #R cheat sheet.

business-science.io/r-cheatsheet.h…
One last resource.

If you've been struggling to learn R, I’d like to help.

I put together a free R webinar that consolidates the 10 secrets that helped me in my career.

learn.business-science.io/free-rtrack-ma…

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Apr 7
🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft launches a free Python library that converts ANY document to Markdown

Introducing Markitdown. Let me explain. 🧵 Image
1. Document Parsing Pipelines

MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines. Image
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MarkItDown supports:

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Apr 2
RIP document extractors.

Google just released LangExtract: Open-source. Free. Better than $100K enterprise tools.

Here’s what it does: 🧵 Image
What it does:

→ Extracts structured data from messy text
→ Grounds every field to the exact source location
→ Handles 100+ page docs
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→ Works with Gemini + local models Image
What it replaces:

→ Regex/fragile parsing
→ Custom NER pipelines
→ Expensive extraction APIs
→ Manual data entry Image
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Mar 31
Data science killed itself.

Not because AI showed up. Because too much of the field confused running a model with understanding one. Image
For years, data science rewarded people for producing outputs:

A model score
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A notebook
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A nice chart

And a lot of that work looked impressive.
But underneath it, there was a problem:

No understanding of the business value (or lack of) it generated.
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Mar 22
Someone built a free 7-week RAG curriculum on GitHub.

And they're right — it's good.

But, you'll need 1 more thing to get an AI/DS job in 2026: Image
Docker. FastAPI. PostgreSQL. OpenSearch. Airflow. Hybrid search. LangGraph. Production monitoring.

That's a serious architecture. Bookmark it. github.com/jamwithai/prod…
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The ones who followed curricula stayed in tutorial purgatory.

The ones who built one real system — in front of a live instructor, with a deadline, with someone watching — shipped.
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Mar 17
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic just published guides on:

• Prompt engineering
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• AI in business
• 601 AI use cases

9 of the best guides you can't miss: Image
1. AI in the Enterprise by OpenAI

Grab the PDF: cdn.openai.com/business-guide…Image
2. A practical guide to building agents by OpenAI

Download here: cdn.openai.com/business-guide…
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80% of data scientists say they want to build AI agents.

Almost none of them can answer this question:

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Here's the quick breakdown:
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2. Sequential — agents run one after another. Use when each step depends on the last. More reliable.
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