- SELF-HOSTED, DevOps, Tutorial
From Lab to Production: an R Shiny Survey with a Database Backend
At the first glimpse, building a survey application might seem like a frontend exercise, but it's actually a great vehicle for understanding Docker and containerization. An online survey inherently requires multiple components working together: a web interface for participants, a database for storing responses, and communication between these parts. These needs make it an ideal real-world example for learning docker-compose - a tool to coordinate multiple application parts in light weight fashion.
- Lecture, Tutorial
H4Sci @HSG, Guest Lecture - Leverage APIs for Economic Data
The reason you see an Economic Index even though this post is about APIs and their usage for economic data is that we will explore the data part of what it takes to create our own economic index, i.e., what it takes to efficiently gather more than 300 time series.
- Recap
H4Sci 2025: Block 1 - Course Debriefing
Stack -- a developer's toolkit. We discussed how much DevOps a researcher and analyst really needs. Not all rabbit holes are for everyone. Git version control carpentry may be the one skill you must take a way from a semester of hacking for science... Read more!
