Jupyter Notebooks for Humans

Presented at PyNam event on April 15, 2021

Six Steps to Human Friendly Notebooks. An overview of how Jupyter notebooks can be used to build community and share knowledge widely.

Discussion of Miniforge, JupyterLab, Binder, and Workshops at Meetups.

Transcript

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   Notebooks for Humans Carol Willing
   
   April 15, 2021
   PyNam Event
   
   
   "WE ARE MORE THAN A
   COMMUNITY" – PyNam
   https://speakerdeck.com/willingc/jupyter-notebooks-for-humans
   

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2. Hello
   
   PyNam
   
   Pythonistas
   Steering Council, Python
   
   Core Developer, Python
   
   Fellow, Python Software Foundation
   
   Frank Willison Award for technical and
   community contributions to Python
   
   Steering Council, Project Jupyter
   
   Core Developer, Project Jupyter
   
   Co-Editor, Journal of Open Source
   Education
   
   Co-Author, Teaching and Learning
   with Jupyter Notebooks
   
   2017 ACM Software System Award
   
   VP of Learning, Noteable.io
   Carol Willing
   GitHub: willingc
   

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3. HI, I’M CAROL
   • I love playing and creating with code.
   
   • Ooh...cool. How did you make this?
   
   • What happens if...
   
   • I wonder if I can break it.
   
   • People before code - always
   
   • Learn, Build, Share - Openly
   

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4. Python Namibia
   The future of Python
   depends on people.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smP550fgQbk
   
   How Python rises in Namibia - Ngazetungue Muheue
   

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5. Notebooks
   
   for Humans
   Share
   Build
   Learn
   

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6. Learn
   Jupyter
   Notebook
   A Jupyter Notebook document with a visualization of measles data.
   

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7. @WillingCarol
   9,857,138
   
   
   notebooks on GitHub
   

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8. @WillingCarol
   Storytelling
   with text, code, visualization,
   multimedia, and interactivity
   

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9. JupyterLab 3.0 - Simple Interface
   https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-3-0-is-out-4f58385e25bb
   

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10. JupyterLab 3.0 - integrated debugger
    https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-3-0-is-out-4f58385e25bb
    Try it at https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/debugger.html#tutorial-notebook
    

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11. Notebooks for Everyone
    

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12. Build
    

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13. Miniforge (conda-forge/miniforge)
    A minimal installer for Conda speci
    fi
    c to conda-forge. It is
    comparable to Miniconda, but with:
    
    
    • an emphasis on supporting various CPU architectures
    
    
    • installation scripts or brew install miniforge on Mac
    
    
    • conda-forge set as the default channel
    
    
    • optional support for PyPy in place of standard Python (aka
    "CPython")
    
    
    • optional support for Mamba in place of Conda
    

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14. Miniforge: Install on your computer
    brew install miniforge
    bash
    Follow directions in the README and terminal output
    

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15. Use a web-based service (Binder)
    https://jupyter.org/try
    Try JupyterLab or Jupyter Classic Notebook.
    Important: This is a temporary notebook so remember to
    download your notebooks before you close the web page.
    

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16. Six Steps
    to
    
    Notebooks
    
    for
    Humans
    Text Multimedia
    Code Interactivity
    Visualization Sharing
    

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17. 1 Start with an explanation
    

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18. 2 Use code to get or create data
    

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19. 3 Visualize
    

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20. 3 Visualize
    

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21. 4 Interact with the notebook
    

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22. 5 Add multimedia and resources
    

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23. 6 Share the notebook
    https://gesis.mybinder.org/binder/v2/gist/willingc/aa52d625e5c58c3abfb2814e46d40dff/0fd73ffb21189d2dc9ade8e1a5c09bcd62a6a271
    

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24. Share
    

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25. @WillingCarol
    25
    

    Live
    Code
    on
    Binder
    https://beta.mybinder.org/v2/gh/minrk/ligo-binder/master?filepath=index.ipynb
    https://losc.ligo.org/tutorials/
    LIGO Binder
    mybinder.org
    

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26. Notebooks
    and
    Community
    Less stress
    
    
    Friends and fun
    
    
    Future mentors
    
    
    Everyone wins
    Intro to Python - San Diego Python
    https://github.com/pythonsd/intro-to-python
    

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27. ...a programming
    language created by a
    community fosters
    happiness in its users
    around the world.
    – Guido van Rossum
    

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28. Human
    Friendly
    Notebooks
    Text Multimedia
    Code Interactivity
    Visualization Sharing
    Share
    Build
    Learn
    

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29. Came for the language.
    
    
    Stayed for the community.
    PyNam and
    
    
    Pythonistas
    
    
    around the world
    Credit: Kushal Das
    

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30. @WillingCarol 30
    Thank you
    

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31. Python
    
    Software
    
    Foundation
    

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32. •PyNam Website
    
    •San Diego Python
    
    •Project Jupyter team and community
    
    •Noteable for giving me the time to contribute back to the Python community
    
    •Photo credits and links on individual slides
    Attributions and recognition
    https://speakerdeck.com/willingc/jupyter-notebooks-for-humans @willingcarol
    https://gist.github.com/willingc/aa52d625e5c58c3abfb2814e46d40dff
    

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