Behind the scenes: Select Employee Group (SEG) Analyzer Tool
What is SEG Analyzer?
The purpose of the SEG Analyzer Tool is to allow federal multiple common bond credit unions to benchmark their SEG addition activity against their peers. It also visualizes growth measures from call report data.
How It’s Made
I built this app using my favorite programming language, R. I used a package called Shiny, which makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. I also used a package called ggplotly, which allowed me to make interactive graphs powered by the Plotly library. Styling was done using in-line HTML and a custom CSS stylesheet.
If you’re interested in seeing more about how this tool was built, I did a live stream on CUCollaborate’s Twitch page while I was still in the building process. I went through the basic infrastructure of the app and then live-coded all the graphs while listening to feedback from the audience.
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