cataScience: Interactive Training App for Data Science and AI Skills
An interactive 'shiny' training companion for people who are new to data, developed for World Health Organization data trainings. Bundles hands-on modules for importing data, missing values, outliers, text cleaning, merging, visualization, and basic statistics, plus a set of AI-skills pages (prompting levels, a prompt gallery, AI safety rules, and a methodology case study) and an interactive quiz with per-session topic filters. Includes reusable data-quality, plotting and reporting functions and an extended workshop app with public health examples. Launch the original app with run_cata() or the workshop with run_catas().
| Version: | 2.2.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | base64enc, broom, bslib (≥ 0.6.0), cowplot, dplyr (≥ 1.1.0), DT, forcats, ggplot2, htmltools, markdown, mice, naniar, plotly, purrr, readr, readxl, rlang, scales, shiny (≥ 1.8.1), skimr, stringr, tibble, tidyr, zip |
| Suggests: | DSIR, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), VIM, withr |
| Published: | 2026-11-05 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.cataScience |
| Author: | Shanlong Ding 
[aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Shanlong Ding <dings at who.int> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/shanlong-who/cataScience/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/shanlong-who/cataScience, https://shanlong-who.github.io/cataScience/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-US |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | cataScience results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | cataScience.html , cataScience.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Getting started with cataScience (source, R code) A guided data-quality workflow (source, R code) Planning a data science and AI training (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | cataScience_2.2.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: cataScience_2.1.4.zip, r-release: cataScience_2.1.4.zip, r-oldrel: cataScience_2.2.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): cataScience_2.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): cataScience_2.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): cataScience_2.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): cataScience_2.2.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | cataScience archive |
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