Python and Jupyter: Your Gateway for Learning Presented keynote at PyCon Poland on August 19, 2017

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
LearnerCoach
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
@willingcarolGateway to
Learning

18. Which
path?
Credit: http://pythonineducation.org/

20. Encouraging contributors to CPython
Credit: LWN.netPyCon 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
@willingcarolGateway 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 EditorTerminal
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