Python and Jupyter: Your Gateway for Learning

Keynote presentation at PyCon Poland on August 19, 2017

Python and Jupyter have strong ties to education and foster lifelong learning. This talk gives an overview of the Python and Jupyter communities and technologies. The talk highlights how Python and Jupyter are used for teaching and for engaging learners.

Transcript

1. 
 Python and Jupyter: Your Gateway for Learning Carol Willing Python Software Foundation Project Jupyter August 19, 2017 PyCon PL 2017 @carolwilling
2. Headline Slide Sub-headline Hello
3. Thank you Organizers Volunteers Sponsors Attendees
4. Carol Willing Project Jupyter Steering Council and Developer Cal Poly SLO Software Engineer Python Software Foundation Recent Director CPython Core Developer Fab Lab San Diego Geek in Residence @willingcarol
5. 2012 New to Python Confused - pip and virtualenv Python 2 or 3 ??? Beginner @willingcarol
6. Intro to Python PyLadies San Diego San Diego Python Django tutorial Learner @willingcarol
7. First Python talk
8. A first program
9. http://blog.djangogirls.org/post/107597215478/your-django-story-meet-carol-willing Coach Most of all, believe in yourself.
10. Beginner Learner Coach My programming path Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat
11. or
12. Happiness
13. Beginner Curiosity Engage Connect Wow Beginner
14. Learner Beginner Learner What if... Success and Failure Persistence Questions Feedback
15. Learner Beginner Developer Developer Code Resource Collaborate Solve problems
16. Gateways PyLadies DjangoGirls Workshops Conferences User groups Sprints pyvideo.org Documentation Credit: http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/
17. #PyConPL @willingcarol Gateway to Learning
18. Which path? Credit: http://pythonineducation.org/
20. Encouraging contributors to CPython Credit: LWN.net PyCon 2017 Language Summit
21. Tinkering and making
22. MicroPython, micro:bit, Raspberry Pi Credit: micropython.org Credit: https://helloworld.raspberrypi.org/helloworld/issues/1 Credit: http://microbit.org/about/
23. Web Credit: Two Scoops Press
24. “Real world” web http://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2017/keynote-pythoninstragram.html Credits: Instagram, pyvideo.org
25. Mobile Credit: https://pybee.org/project/using/
26. Python’s power in your hand https://pybee.org/project/about/
27. Python Community
29. #PyConPL @willingcarol Gateway to Learning
30. Jupyter Notebook A Jupyter Notebook document with a visualization of measles data.
31. Jupyter Notebook Interactive Browser-based computing environment Exploratory Science, machine learning, visualization, analysis, stats Reproducible document format Code Narrative text (markdown) Equations (LaTeX) Images, visualizations Over 50 programming languages Everything open-source (BSD license)
32. “Jupyter Notebook… will enable data exploration, visualization, and analysis in a way that encourages sound science and speeds progress. -Chris Mentzel The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Enabling reproducible science
34. A ten year journey. Optimism and hope for the future.
36. Live code on Binder https://beta.mybinder.org/v2/gh/minrk/ligo-binder/master?filepath=index.ipynb https://losc.ligo.org/tutorials/
37. Classic Jupyter: More Than Just Notebooks
38. >6M Users https://github.com/jupyter/design/blob/master/surveys/2015-notebook-ux/analysis/report_dashboard.ipynb
39. Over 1M Notebooks on GitHub https://github.com/trending/jupyter-notebook
40. Exploration and experimentation Physical media with electronics Real world, self-directed projects Teaching Signal Processing using Wearables and Jupyter Notebooks Dr. Demba Ba http://pyvideo.org/scipy-2016/labs-in-the-wild-teaching-signal-processing-using-wearables-jupyter-notebooks-scipy-2016.html
41. Python for Geosciences Dr. Kristen Thyng Communication with students using nbgrader http://kristenthyng.com/blog/2016/09/07/ jupyterhub+nbgrader/ Progression to complex examples https://github.com/kthyng/python4geosciences
42. JupyterHub 0.8 Zero to JupyterHub with Kubernetes https://zero-to-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io
43. Start with a proven curriculum http://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2013/a-hands-on-introduction-to- python-for-beginning-p.html No time consuming installs Hands on Takeaway notebooks https://github.com/pythonsd/intro-to-python Teaching workshops Intro to Python San Diego Python
44. Teaching university students Berkeley Data Science Data8 UC Berkeley http://denero.org/data-8-in-spring-2017.html https://github.com/data-8/jupyterhub-k8s http://data8.org/ http://data.berkeley.edu/ http://data.berkeley.edu/about/videos • Campus wide curriculum • Cross-discipline • Zero to JupyterHub with Kubernetes https://zero-to-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io
45. ipywidgets Docs https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io cookiecutter to simplify creating new widgets Interactive Documentation Engaging User Content Rapid “what if” scenarios http://jupyter.org/widgets.html
46. Jupyter for Science and Data Science
47. Kernels Output Text Editor Terminal File Browser Notebooks Building Blocks
48. Introducing JupyterLab: The Evolution of the Jupyter Notebook The JupyterLab Team Chris Colbert, Continuum Steven Silvester, Continuum Afshin Darian, Continuum Jason Grout, Bloomberg Brian Granger, Cal Poly Grant Nestor, Cal Poly Cameron Oelsen, Cal Poly Fernando Perez, LBNL/Berkeley Ian Rose, Berkeley Cal Poly Interns The Larger Jupyter Team @jupyterlab on GitHub @ProjectJupyter on Twitter
49. A Whirlwind Tour of JupyterLab
50. New implementation of the notebook
51. Collapsible cells and draggable cells
52. Collaboration between tools A log in the console of commands executed Explore data in console without messing up your notebook
53. Editors Many different editors; preview markdown
54. Editor connected to a console Connect to console and Shift-Enter to run code snippet
55. Single document mode Shift-Command-Enter to enter single document mode. Similar to classic notebook.
56. Extensible “In one night and a couple of dozen lines of code we wrote a Fasta viewer.”
57. Becomes a notebook extension With the same code, the Fasta viewer becomes an extension usable in the notebook.
58. Datasets, grids, and scale 1.2M rows 200Mb csv file. Excel can’t open. A few seconds to load and then “smooth as butter” when scrolling. Rumor has it that Chris Colbert has a trillion row by column demo too.
59. Learn more about JupyterLab http://pyvideo.org/pydata-dc-2016/jupyterlab-building-blocks-for-interactive-computing.html PyData Seattle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZT_mpNRcY Demo from SciPy 2017: https://youtu.be/X8zPuBu22Y4?t=44m50s
60. You create the future Credit: http://pythonineducation.org/
61. What will you do? Call to Action
62. Call to action • Join PSF and Python in Education • Attend a user group meeting • Participate in a sprint • Give a talk or write a post • Coach at a workshop
63. Resources Python Software Foundation PyLadies and DjangoGirls Conferences, Workshops and Sprints pyvideo.org Hello World & Raspberry Pi Foundation Python in Education pythonineducation.org
64. Call to action • Join Jupyter mailing lists • Give a talk or write a post • Teach a Carpentry workshop • Contribute to a favorite project • Share your notebooks and Binders
65. Resources jupyter.org pyvideo.org jupyter google groups and Gitter try.jupyter.org Trending notebooks on GitHub nbviewer https://github.com/willingc/2017- science-gateways/blob/master/ resources/resources.md
66. Came for the language. Stayed for the community. Brett Cannon and Pythonistas around the world Credit: Kushal Das
67. Headline Slide Sub-headline Thank you
68. Thank you @willingcarol GitHub: willingc try.jupyter.org www.jupyter.org ipython.org numfocus.org python.org Python Software Foundation Python Dev Guide pyladies.org djangogirls.com
69. Questions?
70. • Kristen Thyng • San Diego Python • Demba Ba • Jeremy Freeman, Binder • Michael Cuthbert, music21 • LIGO • Photo credits on individual slides Attributions and recognition A huge thank you to the Project Jupyter team and community. Your hard work and passion makes this all possible.
71. 
 Python and Jupyter: Your Gateway for Learning Carol Willing Former Director Python Software Foundation Steering Council Project Jupyter August 19, 2017 PyCon PL 2017 @carolwilling