Epi-interactive

Epi-interactive, which now trades as Epi, is a data science consultancy that makes data and research easier to use. The firm renamed itself in 2025 after more than fifteen years of operation. It works across health, biosecurity and environmental topics and uses open-source tools throughout.

What Epi-interactive offers

• Dashboards and data visualisation — turns complex data into views that people can act on.
• Web apps — designs and builds analytical and decision-support tools, and is known for its Shiny applications.
• Data science infrastructure — helps clients tune the platforms that their analysis runs on.
• Research websites — presents research findings in a form stakeholders can explore.

Who it works with

Project examples in the sources include biosecurity risk models, disease surveillance reporting, a cancer care data explorer and tools tracking avian influenza. Clients named include research institutes and health agencies. The firm says it has completed projects in more than a dozen countries.

Key facts

• Experience: more than 15 years, with over 200 dashboards, web apps and infrastructure projects
• Renamed: Epi-interactive became Epi in 2025
• Partnership: certified full-service partner of the company formerly known as RStudio, now Posit