say-hello-to-multilingual-shiny.md

talk_id	talk_slug	talk_type	talk_tags	session_slug	talk_title	talk_title_short	talk_materials_url	speakers
22141	say-hello-to-multilingual-shiny	lightning	access interop shiny story	lightning-talks	Say Hello! to Multilingual Shiny Apps	Say Hello! to Multilingual Shiny Apps		name affiliation url username photo bio Nicola Rennie Jumping Rivers webpage twitter github linkedin affiliation https://nrennie.rbind.io/ https://twitter.com/nrennie35 https://github.com/nrennie https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-rennie-076511b3/ https://www.jumpingrivers.com/ nicola_rennie /assets/img/2022Conf/_talks/22141_nicola-rennie.jpg Nicola Rennie is a statistician and data scientist, passionate about using R to solve problems. She currently works as a data scientist at Jumping Rivers having previously completed her PhD in statistics and operational research at Lancaster University. She enjoys sharing her knowledge of R, creating data visualisations, and helping clients learn from their data.

Multilingual shiny apps are not straightforward to build. Translation affects almost every single aspect of an app. Although there are a few packages designed to automate the translation process, they tend to only work for the most widely spoken languages.

Using a bilingual English-Welsh shiny app we developed to present public health data as a case study, this talk will discuss:

• how we built a multilingual shiny app;
• how translation affected design decisions;
• how we overcame the main issues faced;
• and most importantly, what we'd do differently next time.

By the end of this talk, you will have a better understanding of how to translate your Shiny app to help you to share your app with a much wider audience.