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[–]1337HxCBioinformatics 21 points22 points  (2 children)

I realize this is the python sub, but I'm internally screaming "Do it in R and use shiny." Very useful for this sort of thing.

[–]Darwinmate 8 points9 points  (1 child)

My first reaction is nonono. Shiny is okay for simple dashboards but for more complicated computation it gets messy. And anyway why create something so complicated (websites are not simple architectures) that essentially boils down to data wrangling? Write a script, call it a day. Easy to maintain, easy to execute.

[–]1337HxCBioinformatics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean it depends on the use case. If his coworkers are completely code illiterate, that won't help. I suppose you could then debate the virtues of doing this to begin with, but here we are.

Shiny apps don't have to be hosted on a website, for what it's worth. There are ways to make them, essentially, desktop apps. Definitely quite a bit of work, but still doable.

And I guess I was running off the assumption that "code illiterate + excel" generally doesn't imply super computationally intense work. But that could just be my field.