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In flipped learning, students encounter new material before class meetings, which helps them learn how to learn and frees up class time to focus on creative applications of the basic material. Lorena Barba and Robert Talbert discuss the use of Jupyter notebooks as a “tangible interface” for new material in a flipped course and share case studies from their own courses.

The Data Science Modules program at UC Berkeley creates short explorations into data science using notebooks to allow students to work hands-on with a dataset relevant to their course. Mariah Rogers, Ronald Walker, and Julian Kudszus explain the logistics behind such a program and the indispensable features of JupyterHub that enable such a unique learning experience.

In an effort to broaden graduates' mathematical toolkit and address gender equity in STEM education, Rob Newton has led the implementation of Python projects across his school's entire ninth-grade math courses. Now every student in the ninth grade completes three python projects that introduce programming and integrate them with the ideas developed in class.

Join this panel of seasoned educators and the cochairs of the education track at JupyterCon to look to the future of Jupyter in teaching and learning.

Students learn by doing. Carol Willing, Jessica Forde, and Erik Sundell demonstrate the value of interactive content, using Jupyter notebooks, widgets, and visualization libraries, share notable examples of projects within the Jupyter community, and outline ways educators can help students develop data science literacy and use computational skills to build upon their interests.

The Jupyter in education track concludes with breakout sessions that allow presenters and attendees alike to work together on specific topics, potentially leading to new projects and collaborations.

Sylvain Corlay, Johan Mabille, Wolf Vollprecht, and Martin Renou share the latest features of the C++ Jupyter kernel, including live help, auto-completion, rich MIME type rendering, and interactive widgets. Join in to explore one of the most feature-full implementations of the Jupyter kernel protocol that also brings Jupyter closer to the metal.

Running infrastructure is challenging for an open source community. Yuvi Panda shares lessons drawn from the small community that operates MyBinder.org, covering the social and technical processes for keeping MyBinder.org reliable in the most open, transparent, and inclusive way possible, using pretty graphs about the state of MyBinder.org that anyone can see in real time.

Using an nteract project, papermill, Matthew Seal walks you through how Netflix uses notebooks to track user jobs and make a simple interface for work submission. You’ll get an inside peek at how Netflix is tackling the scheduling problem for a range of users who want easily managed workflows.

JupyterHub is a multiuser server for Jupyter notebooks, focused on supporting deployments in research and education. Min Ragan-Kelley, Carol Willing, and Yuvi Panda discuss recent additions and future plans for the project.

Stephanie Stattel and Paul Ivanov walk you through a series of extensions that demonstrate the power and flexibility of JupyterLab’s architecture, from targeted functionality modifications to more extreme atmospheric changes that require extensive decoupling and flexibility within JupyterLab.

Jupyter displays a rich array of media types out of the box. M Pacer explains how to use these capabilities to their full potential, covering how to add rich displays to existing and new Python classes and how to customize the way notebooks are converted to other formats. These skills will enable anyone to make beautiful objects with Jupyter.

SWAN, CERN’s service for web-based analysis, leverages the power of Jupyter to provide the high energy physics community access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and services through a web service. Diogo Castro offers an overview of SWAN and explains how researchers and students are using it in their work.

LSST is an ambitious project to map the sky in the fastest, widest, and deepest survey ever made. The project's database disrupts traditional astronomical workflows, and its science platform requires a paradigm shift in how astronomy is done. Adam Thornton discusses the challenges of providing production services on a notebook-based architecture and the compelling advantages of JupyterLab.

Climate science is being flooded with petabytes of data, overwhelming traditional modes of data analysis. The Pangeo project is building a platform to take big data climate science into the cloud using SciPy and large-scale interactive computing tools. Join Ryan Abernathey and Yuvi Panda to find out what the Pangeo team is building and why and learn how to use it.

William Stein explains how CoCalc relates to Project Jupyter and shares how he implemented real-time collaborative editing of Jupyter notebooks in CoCalc.

Making Jupyter accessible to all members of a research organization, regardless of their programming ability, empowers it to best utilize the latest analysis methods while avoiding bottlenecks. Thorin Tabor offers an overview of the GenePattern Notebook, which offers a wide suite of enhancements to the Jupyter environment to help bridge the gap between programmers and nonprogrammers.

Bo Peng offers an overview of Script of Scripts (SoS), a Python 3-based workflow engine with a Jupyter frontend that allows the use of multiple kernels in one notebook. This unique combination enables users to analyze data using multiple scripting languages in one notebook and, if needed, convert scripts to workflows in situ to analyze large amounts of data on remote systems.

The Globus service simplifies the utilization of large and distributed data on the Jupyter platform. Ian Foster explains how to use Globus and Jupyter to seamlessly access notebooks using existing institutional credentials, connect notebooks with data residing on disparate storage systems, and make data securely available to business partners and research collaborators.

In silico prediction of chemical properties has seen vast improvements in both veracity and volume of data but is currently hamstrung by a lack of transparent, reproducible workflows coupled with environments for visualization and analysis. Chris Harris offers an overview of a platform that uses Jupyter notebooks to enable an end-to-end workflow from simulation setup to visualizing the results.

Notebook authors often consider only the interactive experience of creating computable documents. However, the dynamic state of a notebook is a minor period in its lifecycle; the majority is spent as a file at rest. Tony Fast and Nick Bollweg explore conventions that create notebooks with value long past their inception as documents, software packages, test suites, and interactive applications.

Julia and Jupyter share a common evolution path: Julia is the language for modern technical computing, while Jupyter is the development and presentation environment of choice for modern technical computing. Viral Shah and Jane Herriman discuss Julia's journey and the impact of Jupyter on Julia's growth.

Nicolas Fernandez offers an overview of Clustergrammer-Widget, an interactive heatmap Jupyter widget that enables users to easily explore high-dimensional data within a Jupyter notebook and share their interactive visualizations using nbviewer.

The Binder project drastically lowers the bar to sharing and reusing software. Users wanting to try out someone else’s work need only click a single link to do so. Tim Head offers an overview of the Binder project and explores the concepts and ideas behind it. Tim then showcases examples from the community to show off the power of Binder.

Over the past two years, we have seen a dramatic shift in Jupyter’s deployment, from ad hoc usage by individuals to production enterprise application at scale. Brian Granger explains how this has expanded the Jupyter community and revealed new use cases with new challenges and opportunities.

In Capital One's recent exploration of "notebook" offerings, JupyterHub emerged as a top contender that could serve as a potential platform for analytics even in highly regulated industries like financial services. David Schaaf and Shivraj Ramanan discuss Capital One's journey and explain how Jupyter has become a part of the company's ever-growing analytics toolkit.

Matt Greenwood explains why Two Sigma, a company in a space notorious for protecting IP, thinks it's important to contribute to the open source community. Matt covers the evolution of Two Sigma's thinking and policies over the past five years and makes a case for why other companies should make a commitment to the open source ecosystem.

Dave Stuart explains how Jupyter was used inside the US Department of Defense and the greater intelligence community to empower thousands of "citizen data scientists" to build and share analytics in order to meet the community’s dynamic challenges.

Government agencies have found it difficult to serve taxpayers because of the technical, bureaucratic, and ethical issues associated with access and use of sensitive data. Julia Lane explains how the Coleridge Initiative has partnered with Jupyter to design ways that can address the core problems such organizations face.

Join in for the Business Summit's roundtable discussion with participation from IBM, Capital One, the DoD, AWS, Oracle, and others. Speakers will discuss important issues in our current environment—everything from compliance and GDPR to ML models.

Luciano Resende outlines a pattern for building deep learning models using the Jupyter Notebook's interactive development in commodity hardware and leveraging platforms and services such as Fabric for Deep Learning (FfDL) for cost-effective full dataset training of deep learning models.

Kevin McCormick explains the story of two approaches which were used internally at AWS to accelerate new ML algorithm development, and easily package Jupyter notebooks for scheduled execution, by creating custom Jupyter kernels that automatically create Docker containers, and dispatch them to either a distributed training service or job execution environment.

Chakri Cherukuri offers an overview of the interactive widget ecosystem available in the Jupyter notebook and illustrates how Jupyter widgets can be used to build rich visualizations of machine learning models. Along the way, Chakri walks you through algorithms like regression, clustering, and optimization and shares a wizard for building and training deep learning models with diagnostic plots.

Netflix relies on notebooks to inform decisions and fuel experiments across the company. Now Netflix wants to go even further to deliver a compelling notebook experience for end-to-end workflows. Michelle Ufford shares some of the big bets Netflix is making on notebook infrastructure, covering data use at Netflix, architecture, kernels, UIs, and open source projects, such as nteract.

Help shape the future of Jupyter's user experience. We’ll be testing new UI ideas for JupyterLab, listening to your needs, and involving you in idea generation.

Ready, set, network! Meet fellow attendees who are looking to connect at JupyterCon. We'll gather before Thursday keynotes for an informal speed networking event. Be sure to bring your business cards—and remember to have fun.

JupyterCon cochairs Paco Nathan, Fernando Pérez, and Brian Granger open the first day of keynotes.

Will Farr shares examples of Jupyter use within the LIGO and Virgo Scientific Collaborations and offers lessons about the (many) advantages and (few) disadvantages of Jupyter for large, global scientific collaborations. Along the way, Will speculates on Jupyter's future role in gravitational wave astronomy.

Jupyter is built on a set of extensible, reusable building blocks, expressed through various open protocols, APIs, and standards. For many use cases, these are combined to provide extensible software architecture for interactive computing with data. Paco Nathan shares a few somewhat unexpected things that emerged in 2018.

New challenges are emerging for Jupyter, open information, and investing in the future. You, the innovators of this growing knowledge commons, will determine how we meet these challenges and sustain the ecosystem. Carol Willing shows how you can start.

IBM has leveraged the Jupyter stack in many of its products to offer industry-leading and business-critical services to its clients. Luciano Resende explores some of the open source initiatives that IBM is leading in the Jupyter ecosystem to address enterprise requirements in the community.

Beyond Twitter, Facebook, and similar networks, without question, data, code, and algorithms are forming systems of power in our society. Mark Hansen explains why it is crucial that journalists—explainers of last resort—be able to interrogate these systems, holding power to account.

Julia Meinwald outlines a few effective ways Two Sigma has identified to support the unseen labor maintaining a healthy open source ecosystem and details how the company’s thinking on this topic has evolved.

Keynote by Dan Romuald Mbanga

Closing remarks

Topic Table discussions are a great way to informally network with people in similar industries or interested in the same topics.

Wind down after a full day of sessions with delicious snacks and drinks as you network with attendees, speakers, and sponsors. The attendee reception is sponsored by Two Sigma.