Schedule: Community sessions

April Clyburne-Sherin walks you through preparing Jupyter notebooks for computationally reproducible publication. You'll learn best practices for publishing notebooks and get hands-on experience preparing your own research for reuse, creating documentation, and submitting your notebook to share. Read more.

Jane Herriman uses Jupyter notebooks to show you why Julia is special, demonstrate how easy it is to learn, and get you writing your first Julia programs. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

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. Read more.

Many of us believe that gender diversity in open source projects is important. (If you don’t, this isn’t going to convince you.) But what things are correlated with improved gender diversity, and what can we learn from similar historic industries? Holden Karau and Matt Hunt explore the diversity of different projects, examine historic EEOC complaints, and detail parallels and historic solutions. Read more.

The nbinteract package converts Jupyter notebooks with widgets into interactive, standalone HTML pages. Its built-in support for function-driven plotting makes authoring interactive pages simpler by allowing users to focus on data, not callbacks. Sam Lau and Caleb Siu offer an overview of nbinteract and walk you through the steps to publish an interactive web page from a Jupyter notebook. Read more.