# Public Sector Shiny Showcase: Government Agencies Worldwide Building Data Science with R, Python, and Shiny

> Blog post by Jeremy Allen (Product Marketing Manager, Posit), published June 18, 2026. Announces the growth of Posit's Public Sector Shiny Showcase — a curated gallery of interactive Shiny and Quarto applications built by government agencies, statistics offices, and research institutes worldwide using R and Python. Originally launched in January 2026, the showcase has expanded to include national statistics offices and research institutes across Europe and Latin America.

## What the Showcase Is

The [Public Sector Shiny Showcase](https://pub.current.posit.team/public/Public_Sector_Shiny_Showcase/) is a regularly updated gallery of production applications built by public sector organizations using R, Python, Shiny, and Quarto. Applications are hosted on self-managed Posit Connect servers, enabling agencies to publish work in environments that require tight security controls. Because the underlying languages are open source, any agency's solution can serve as a starting point for another.

## Featured Applications and Organizations

**National Statistics**
- **INDEC (Argentina)** — Integrated System of Social Statistics presenting wellbeing through a capabilities lens, region by region; also a dashboard on the elderly population covering aging, activity, and access to care
- **Central Statistics Office (Ireland)** — Macroeconomic dashboard for exploring the country's key economic indicators
- **SUBDERE (Chile)** — Índice de Brechas de Género (gender gap index) measuring disparities down to the commune level

**Public Health**
- **European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)** — European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary: weekly integrated surveillance of influenza, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2 for the EU, EEA, and WHO European Region
- **Kentucky Department of Public Health** — Transcriptomic Atlas of Nervous System Tumors (gene expression data for cancer researchers) and a Public Health Transformation Dashboard aggregating community health assessments from local health departments

**Transparency and Policy Research**
- **UK National Audit Office** — Visual map of the asylum system showing which bodies are involved, how a claim moves through each stage, and how people are supported while waiting
- **European Commission Joint Research Centre** — Real-time macroeconomic nowcasting for the euro area; EF3.1 Ecotox Explorer showing how freshwater ecotoxicity factors were derived from underlying data

## Why Open Source Fits Public Sector Work

Three recurring reasons across the showcase:

- **Cost-effectiveness:** Open-source languages let agencies build capable interactive tools without replacing existing platforms; adds capability rather than forcing vendor switches
- **Transparency:** Apps like Ireland's macroeconomic dashboard and the UK asylum systems map invite citizens directly into the underlying data, building institutional trust
- **Portability:** Standard open-source code runs anywhere — from Sacramento to Santiago — with no proprietary format and no vendor lock-in

## Posit Products Involved

- **Shiny (R and Python)** — Interactive application framework used across all showcased apps
- **Quarto** — Reproducible reporting and document publishing
- **Posit Connect** — Deployment platform for secure, self-managed publishing in government environments
- **Posit Team** — The full suite (Workbench, Connect, Package Manager) for teams needing full governance and security

## Relevant Links

- [Public Sector Shiny Showcase (full gallery)](https://pub.current.posit.team/public/Public_Sector_Shiny_Showcase/)
- [Original January 2026 showcase post](https://posit.co/blog/serving-the-public-see-how-government-agencies-use-r-python-shiny-and-quarto-to-drive-research-and-data-science-modernization)
- [Posit public sector solutions](https://posit.co/solutions/public-sector)
- [Posit open source](https://opensource.posit.co/)
- [Posit Team product page](https://posit.co/products/enterprise/team)
- [Schedule a call with Posit public sector experts](https://posit.co/schedule-a-call)