Shiny Contest 2020 - Life of Pi

According to RStudio, there were 220 submissions from 183 unique Shiny developers to the contest this year. Being a part of it is an achievement in itself.

So I came up with “Life of Pi: A Monte Carlo Simulation”.
This is a shiny app that demonstrates the use of Monte Carlo Simulation to estimate the value of pi. The app uses {gganimate} to show how a Monte Carlo Simulation runs in real time. You can read the details of the app in the original RStudio Community submission

{ggforce}, {waiter} are a couple of other mentionable packages used.
Some CSS has also been used to design the app.

You can try it out here
Here is the RStudio Blog Post mentioning the winners.

It was enough for me to be able to submit something in a contest like this.
To me, the app wasn’t worthy of the Honorable Mention. Its a favor that they have done. I’m quite grateful.