The Challenge
The data team at Stack Overflow works mainly in R and SQL for statistical analysis and modeling, and produces work that impacts every single visitor to the site. Communicating analytical results was frustrating, though; some documents were shared internally via a web-based office suite, some reports were manually emailed, and the team maintained an installation of Shiny Server Open Source for interactive apps. “We were spending too much time on the logistics of sharing our results,” says Julia Silge, data scientist at Stack Overflow. “The workflow we had was not consistent or efficient.”