Thinking outside the box: Developing dynamic data visualizations for psychology with Shiny

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Ellis, David A ^a   Merdian, Hannah L ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge exchange; R; Research methods; Shiny; Statistics; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954243516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01782     Document Type: Article

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