The idea of ‘Visual Abstracts’ have recently become popular and are particularly efficient in distilling the main findings of original research.
I wanted to create an application that enabled users (or non programmers in general) to create nice visual summaries for their research projects they could share over social media. I’ve added a fair bit of control and customization in the application mostly related to layout and aesthetics.
This project was entered into the first ever (2019) Shiny Competition hosted by R Studio and received an honorable mention. You can view the original blog entry here.
I also ended up turning this app into a package, which can be installed locally on your machine from CRAN.
install.packages("abstractr")