Maya Gans

Director, Analytics Engineering

Maya Gans is a director at Atorus, where she leads teams building enterprise applications that power insights across a wide range of domains in the pharmaceutical industry. Maya’s background blends R and JavaScript development, including co-authoring JavaScript for Data Science and designing TidyBlocks, a visual block-based programming language. Maya also develops music-focused data visualizations for publications using ggplot2 and d3.js.

Articles and Resources by Maya

Blog

Shiny App Development. Your App Works, So Why Won’t Anyone Use It?

July 7, 2026

You invested in Shiny app development, and the proof of concept delivered. The numbers are right, the logic holds, and the app does...

Presentations

Aligning the Dots: Simplifying Table Presentations in R

January 24, 2023

Do you want to learn how to make your table presentations more attractive...

Presentations

Creating a Design System for Shiny and RMarkdown

August 29, 2022

What’s the cost of bad UI? What’s the benefit of good UI? How can simple governing rules...

Blog

Highlighting SAS Chunks in RMarkdown

March 8, 2021

SAS is a major player in the clinical trial world, and as R enthusiasts here at Atorus, finding ways that...

Blog

Building a ggplot2 Theme

February 3, 2021

Several graphs are created within the clinical trial space for a single submission. While there is a lot of domain...