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JupyterLab tutorial

Steven Silvester (Anaconda Powered by Continuum Analytics), Jason Grout (Bloomberg)
1:30pm–5:00pm Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Core architecture
Location: Concourse A Level: Beginner
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)

Who is this presentation for?

  • Software developers, students, and data scientists

Prerequisite knowledge

  • A working knowledge of the command line

Materials or downloads needed in advance

  • A laptop with JupyterLab installed

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to use JupyterLab and how to create a JupyterLab extension

Description

Steven Silvester and Jason Grout lead a walkthrough of JupyterLab as a user and as an extension author, explore its capabilities, and offer a demonstration of how to create a simple extension to the environment.

Steven and Jason begin with a brief introduction to and the motivation behind JupyterLab before diving into a live demonstration. They then discuss a third-party extension, a GeoJSON renderer, and show you how to create your own custom extension that adds content to the application. They end with a brief Q&A before offering some lab time for you to individually explore and make custom extensions for JupyterLab.

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Steven Silvester

Anaconda Powered by Continuum Analytics

Steven Silvester is a software engineer at Anaconda Powered by Continuum Analytics, where he works on Project Jupyter and JupyterLab, a next-generation user interface for the Jupyter Notebook. He has also written kernels for Octave, MATLAB, and Scilab. Previously, Steven served 10 years in the US Air Force.

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Jason Grout

Bloomberg

Jason Grout is a Jupyter developer at Bloomberg, working primarily on JupyterLab and the interactive widget system. Previously, Jason was an assistant professor of mathematics at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Jason co-organizes the PyDataNYC Meetup. He has also been a major contributor to the open source Sage mathematical software system for many years. He holds a PhD in mathematics from Brigham Young University.

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Audra Carter | SENIOR SPEAKER MANAGER
08/23/2017 7:18am EDT

Hi Michael,

The recording will be available to those who have a Gold or Platinum pass to the conference. Otherwise, all attendees get a free Safari 90-day trial that will allow you to access the compilation. You should have an email with more details on how to activate your trial.

Thank you!

Michael Watson | RESEARCH DATA ARCHITECT
08/23/2017 5:33am EDT

My flight last night and I am not going to make the tutorial today. Is there a recording or any materials available for this? Or a call in with a possible screen share?

Fred Mitchell | SOFTWARE ENGINEER
08/21/2017 3:24pm EDT

Never mind. jupyter lab started 0.26.5.

Fred Mitchell | SOFTWARE ENGINEER
08/21/2017 3:19pm EDT

First two command went ok.
Then a stack trace ending with:
raise ValueError(‘`node` version 5+ is required, see extensions in README’)
ValueError: `node` version 5+ is required, see extensions in README

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Steven Silvester | SOFTWARE ENGINEER
08/21/2017 1:43pm EDT

Hi Fred,

The following will get you a clean upgrade. The second two commands are only needed if you have installed extensions.

conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab
jupyter lab clean
jupyter lab build

Fred Mitchell | SOFTWARE ENGINEER
08/21/2017 1:34pm EDT

I have 0.26.3.
I could use a reminder on how to upgrade, just in case. Mac using anaconda.

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Steven Silvester | SOFTWARE ENGINEER
08/18/2017 9:25am EDT

Hi Michael,

Version 0.26.5 will work for the tutorial, but we will be releasing 0.27 on Monday with some enhancements like theme switching.

Michael Sterling | QUANTITATIVE ANALYST
08/17/2017 3:23pm EDT

Is there a particular version of JupyterLab that we should install?