Customer Stories

Below you’ll find our customer stories with examples of how our professional products perform in the real world. We hope that the challenges they faced and the solutions we provided will resonate with you.

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Teaching Medical Decision Making with RStudio Cloud

Harvard’s Data Science for Medical Decision Making course uses RStudio Cloud to conduct investigations and discover new associations with disease and health.

By: Chirag Patel, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School

R in Digital Marketing Production with Extendo and ixpantia

Rather than creating and connecting each piece of the architecture, RStudio Connect standardizes this process and allows our team to focus on designing solutions rather than managing the architecture.

By: Gloria Rodríguez Ramírez, Paul Fervoy, Carlos Pravia Jácamo

BioBuilder Brings Professional Research Tools Like RStudio to High School Bioengineers

At BioBuilder, providing access to a real-world tool like RStudio allowed our students to develop and transfer their analytic skills to other courses, carrying them forward into college and their careers.

By: Natalie Kuldell, Executive Director & Adam Santone, Data Science Consultant, BioBuilder

Fighting Childhood Cancer with RStudio Server Pro

RStudio Server Pro allowed us to set up a self-hosted server on Amazon Web Services and deliver a high-quality workshop experience in less than a month.

By: Jaclyn Taroni, Principal Data Scientist, Joshua Shapiro, Data Scientist, & Kurt Wheeler, Software Architect at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab

Merging the Best Qualities of Data Science and Software Engineering

RStudio Connect met every one of our needs. It allows us to maintain control over our apps, integrate our proprietary packages, and manage access and our users. It also allows us to control our compute resources to better manage our longer-running models. It’s also surprisingly easy to set up.

By: Ezra Tucker, Director of Data Science, Energetic Insurance

How RStudio streamlined our deployment process and unified our data science and development teams

The greatest and most immediate advantage we experienced after switching to RStudio Connect was the ease with which our applications could be deployed.

By: Erika Braithwaite & Kathryn Morrison, Precision Analytics

How RStudio allowed us to harness the full capabilities of our data science team and gain massive efficiencies

The tools inherent in RStudio allowed our statisticians and data scientists to turn into application developers and data engineers without learning any new languages or computer science skills.

By: Paul Ditterline, Manager of Data Science, Brown-Forman

How RStudio helped Redfin move their data models from spreadsheets to a reproducible data science environment

RStudio Connect was the only solution we saw that allowed us to replicate the interactivity that our users got in spreadsheets, but hosted on a server for ease of access and maintainability, and built around more complex statistical approaches that R enabled.

By: Jared Goulart, Director - Operations Analytics, Redfin

Reproducible and sharable analysis workflows

RStudio Server Pro allows Maine Medical Center to create a centralized, managed R environment that all analysts can share. This method provides increased security, decreased burden for the analyst, and much less variability in system dependencies.

By: Adam Black, Research Analyst, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Using Big Data Analytics to Enhance Private Equity’s ROI

RStudio open source and professional products allow Two Six Capital data scientists to slice and dice billions of rows of data on the fly, eliminate manual processes, explore unseen business drivers, and communicate findings effectively...

By: Sajjad Jaffer & Ian Picache, Founders & Managing Partners, Two Six Capital

Increasing the Impact of Data at Stack Overflow

RStudio Connect has reduced the frustrations and increased the effectiveness for all of us on the data team at Stack Overflow. It's been a game changer for communicating the results of our analyses and modeling!

By: Julia Silge, Data Scientist at Stack Overflow

Changing How Local Governments Budget

As a local government practitioner who has worked with the Center for Priority Based Budgeting for a decade, ResourceX has taken a great product and made it even better through their online applications.

By: Chris Fabian & Mike Seman, Founders, ResourceX

Janssen’s R Service for Visualization and Processing

The Janssen Global Epidemiology department has built a tool using R and Shiny to conduct network meta-analyses using data from ClinicalTrials.gov.

By: Zach Schleien, ITLDP Analyst, Business Technology Leader at Johnson & Johnson

When Regulators Called the Thai Social Foundation FCF Responded Quickly with Shiny

Honestly, there is no way we could have produced such a simple to use and good looking application in the time we were given without the RStudio tools.

By: Ken Wade, Data Scientist

Making Research Data Visible at Oxford

IT Services, at the University of Oxford is helping academics to create interactive data visualisations for their websites and publications.

By: Martin Hadley, Academic Research Technology Specialist at Univ. of Oxford

Equipping Data Scientists with the Power of R

RStudio gives our individual data scientists access to highly productive tools in a commercially supported, scalable server environment that complies with our security and IT manageability needs.

By: Mike Maloney, ETS Customer Portfolio Manager

Taking the Pulse of Integrated Pharmacy Benefit Management

We were pleasantly surprised to have a statistically-sound analysis delivered in a customized, continuously improving, and easily understood form.

By: Logan Meltabarger, Enterprise Data Science & Knowledge Solutions at Express Scripts

Using R & Shinyapps.io to close the K-12 connectivity gap

Our Shiny app is one of my most visited sites internally. I rely on Shiny to ultimately achieve our mission by 2020.

By: Evan Marwell, Founder and CEO of Education Superhighway

Managing resources with R & Shiny

Shiny Server Pro allows the people most familiar with the data, methodologies, and objectives to develop the web application.

By: Lisa Pfeiffer, Economist, NWFSC, NOAA Fisheries

The Science of Style at Stitch Fix

Our apps provide flexibility but they are not overly ad hoc. They are visual and elegant, but also austere, providing just enough interaction.

By: Eric Colson, Chief Analytics Officer at Stitch Fix

Applying “Zapier Intelligence”

Finally, I get all the web designer and developer’s tools in the language I already use, R — what’s not to love?

By: Chris Peters, (@statwonk) Data Scientist Zapier

Emergency Analytics

Shiny-based interactive applications place very high-level simulation modeling in the hands of key emergency department stakeholders.

By: Kenneth Lopiano, PhD, Director of R&D at Roundtable Analytics

Delivering Life Changing Medicine with R

With R, RStudio, and Shiny we've created a robust tool chain for routine tasks and enabled reproducible research.

By: Paul Metcalf, Data Scientist, AstraZeneca

Powering Visual Data Discovery to Transform Healthcare

We chose Shiny because it offers our users an easy, visual way of interpreting their data.

By: Rodrigo Barnes, Chief Technology Officer at Aridhia

Building a Better Financial World

We use Shiny to create an interactive environment between Underwriters and the Statistical Credit Risk Models. The establishment of interactive feedback loops through Shiny allows us to continually optimize our decision processes.

By: Marina Theodosiou, Risk Analytics Manager at Funding Circle

Better-For-You Cuisine

Shiny is in this rare space of being very functional, while still being very customizable. Shiny provides a framework that a user can work with to create extra features.

By: Josh Patchus, Chief Data Scientist at Cava Grill

Accelerating bioinformatic learning

RStudio Server Pro gave us the ability to have multiple users at once logged into Bioconductor, each with his/her own workspace. Much easier to manage the complete system and user experience.

By: Nicholas Provart. Professor, Plant Cyberinfrastructure & Systems Biology

Finding the Shiniest Places with Shiny

The challenge was to choose a software stack that could underlie our company’s value of bringing data from the analyst’s desk into an easy-to-use web application.

By: Chris Holcomb, Co-founder and CTO, GeoCF Smart Power Maps

Outsmarting traffic with R & Shiny

Shiny Server Pro dashboard and visualization development allowed the fastest time to market.

By: Daniel Marcous, Google, Waze Data Wizard

Visualizations that work

The RStudio Professional products give us the security, performance, and administrative enhancements we need to deliver data science applications that our business depends on.