Shiny Holiday Party

shiny fun

Fun Shiny app to draw names at the office party

Jeremy Allen https://jeremydata.com
02-15-2021

For an annual holiday Zoom party I was asked to draw a random team member’s name who would win a prize. So I made a Shiny app! The code is on my Github if you want it. The app is on shinyapps.io. if you want to play.

The Fun Part

In addition to picking a name, the app also searches IMDB movie plot summaries for that name, picks a random one from the results and shows it in the app without the movie title. Then everyone tries to guess the movie title. There is a “reveal” button to reveal the movie title if no one can guess.

I removed my coworkers’ names from the app and am using a random selection from the RStudio team page. Here’s a preview, now go play!

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Allen (2021, Feb. 15). jeremydata: Shiny Holiday Party. Retrieved from https://jeremydata.com/posts/2021-02-15-shiny-holiday-party/

BibTeX citation

@misc{allen2021shiny,
  author = {Allen, Jeremy},
  title = {jeremydata: Shiny Holiday Party},
  url = {https://jeremydata.com/posts/2021-02-15-shiny-holiday-party/},
  year = {2021}
}