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Where Questions Become Queries: Meet querychat

Where Questions Become Queries: Meet querychat

querychat is a multilingual drop-in component for Shiny that allows you to chat with your data using natural language queries. No more clicking, no more limited filters, just you and your questions!

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Jan 22, 2026

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Build Your First LLM App with Shiny for Python or R

In the third and final part of The Shiny Side of LLMs, we’ll bring everything together in a polished Shiny app. From covering async, optimizing conversations, to handling loading and errors smoothly. Both Python and R!

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Sep 15, 2025

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Talking to LLMs: From Prompt to Response

In this second part of The Shiny Side of LLMs we get into the fun of actually talking to an LLM. From crafting prompts that get the responses you want, to turning messy outputs into something useful, giving models extra powers with tools, and figuring out what all the chatter really costs

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Sep 5, 2025

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What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don’t)

Welcome to The Shiny Side of LLMs: a blog series explaining large language models in plain English, without the fancy and difficult buzzwords. In this first part: what LLMs are, how they work, what they’re good at, and why they don’t magically solve all your problems

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Jul 31, 2025

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