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The official Jupyter Conference
Aug 21-22, 2018: Training
Aug 22-24, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
M Pacer

M Pacer
Senior Notebook Engineer, Netflix

Website | @mdpacer

M Pacer is a Jupyter core developer and a senior notebook engineer at Netflix. Previously, M was a postdoctoral researcher the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), focusing on the intersection between Jupyter and scientific publishing. M holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, where their research used machine learning and human experiments to study casual explanation and causal inference, and a BS from Yale University, where their research focused on the role of causal language in evaluating scientific claims.

Sessions

5:00pm–5:40pm Thursday, August 23, 2018
Making beautiful objects with Jupyter
Core architecture, Data visualization, Extensions and customization
 Location: Sutton Center/Sutton South Level: Intermediate
M Pacer (Netflix)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 4 ratings)
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. Read more.
2:40pm–3:20pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Jupyter's configuration system
Location: Sutton Center/Sutton South
Afshin Darian (Two Sigma | Project Jupyter), M Pacer (Netflix), Min Ragan-Kelley (Simula Research Laboratory), Matthias Bussonnier (UC Berkeley BIDS)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Jupyter's straightforward, out-of-the-box experience has been important for its success in widespread adoption. But good defaults only go so far. Join Afshin Darian, M Pacer, Min Ragan-Kelley, and Matthias Bussonnier to go beyond the defaults and make Jupyter your own. Read more.