In this chapter, you have learned how to take advantage of the useful shinydashboard packages, which extensively enhance the Shiny app framework to build professional dashboards. In the beginning, we dedicated ourselves fully to the general layout structure of a Shiny dashboard. You have learned how to set up the header, sidebars, and body. Furthermore, you learned how to create different data boxes and options to customize the whole appearance of a dashboard application.

In the second part of this chapter, we imagined that we work for a fictional company called FantasticFutureTec. It was our task to build a useful KPI dashboard for our company by using all of our current knowledge about R, RStudio, and the Shiny framework. We started this by thinking about the right data architecture and ETL processes to obtain the data from our sources. Next, we drew up a fast dashboard sketch to visualize our final ideas and the planned look and feel. Thereafter, it was hands-on work and we showed...