Bren Student Data Explorer

refactoring, redesigning & maintaining Bren’s Shiny dashboard for visualizing admissions and career outcome data of current students and recent graduates

Shiny

shiny dashboard source code


In an effort to increase transparency surrounding student demographics and post-graduation career placement statistics, The Bren School hired R Shiny Developer Fellow, Halina Do-Linh in summer 2022. Halina designed and built v1.0 of the public-facing dashboard for exploring these data.

Since then, the proverbial torch was passed to me for continued maintenance and updates. I collaborate with the Bren Admissions and Career Services Teams, as well as MEDS Program Coordinator, Jamie Montgomery, to update data, modify visuals, and refactor the code, as needed, each year.


A online dashboard with a banner image depicting the Bren School building with the ocean to the left. Atop the image reads in all capital letters, 'BREN STUDENT DATA EXPLORER'. Beneath the banner image are two side-by-side boxes with text. The top of the left-hand box reads, 'Learn about students at the Bren School', and the top of the right-hand box reads, 'About the data'. A left-hand sidebar indicates that we're viewing the Welcome page. Two other pages are listed below: Demographics and Career Outcomes.

The welcome page of the Bren Student Data Explorer, accessible at https://shinyapps.bren.ucsb.edu/student-data-explorer/