Approach for creating a data product from statistical modeling and web UI

In this section, we are going to build an app with a dataset. Before we start with the construction of the architecture of our app, we need some open data to work with. I'm going to use the computer dataset that can be found in the Ecdat package, so make sure to install it by running install.packages("Ecdat"). A documentation about its variables is found at https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/doc/Ecdat/Computers.html.

Once it was installed, if you type class(Ecdat::Computers), you will see that it is a DataFrame. A lot of information is hidden inside this data, and our goal here is to present a couple of them in a Shiny application, publishing it in a web ...

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