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

Schedule: Integrations with other Software sessions

11:05am–11:45am Thursday, August 23, 2018
Location: Sutton Center/Sutton South Level: Intermediate
Sylvain Corlay (QuantStack), Johan Mabille (QuantStack), Wolf Vollprecht (QuantStack), Martin Renou
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 3 ratings)
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. Read more.
11:05am–11:45am Thursday, August 23, 2018
Location: Murray Hill Level: Beginner
Diogo Castro (CERN)
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. Read more.
11:05am–11:45am Thursday, August 23, 2018
Location: Nassau Level: Intermediate
Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory | University of Chicago)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
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. Read more.
1:50pm–2:30pm Thursday, August 23, 2018
Location: Murray Hill Level: Beginner
Ryan Abernathey (Columbia University), Yuvi Panda (Data Science Education Program (UC Berkeley))
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
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. Read more.
4:10pm–4:50pm Thursday, August 23, 2018
Location: Murray Hill Level: Beginner
Thorin Tabor (University of California, San Diego)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
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. Read more.
11:05am–11:45am Friday, August 24, 2018
Location: Murray Hill Level: Intermediate
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Kerim Kalafala and Nicholai L'Esperance share their experiences using Jupyter notebooks as a critical aid in designing the next generation of IBM Power and Z processors, focusing on analytics on graphs consisting of hundreds of millions of nodes. Along the way, Kerim and Nicholai explain how they leverage Jupyter notebooks as part of their overall design system. Read more.
11:55am–12:35pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Location: Murray Hill Level: Intermediate
Tyler Erickson (Google)
Massive collections of data on the Earth's changing environment, collected by satellite sensors and generated by Earth system models, are being exposed via web APIs by multiple providers. Tyler Erickson highlights the use of JupyterLab and Jupyter widgets in analyzing complex high-dimensional datasets, providing insights into how our Earth is changing and what the future might look like. Read more.
4:10pm–4:50pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Location: Concourse A: Business Summit Level: Intermediate
Romit Mehta (PayPal), Praveen Kanamarlapudi (PayPal)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
Hundreds of PayPal's data scientists, analysts, and developers use Jupyter to access data spread across filesystem, relational, document, and key-value stores, enabling complex analytics and an easy way to build, train, and deploy machine learning models. Romit Mehta and Praveen Kanamarlapudi explain how PayPal built its Jupyter infrastructure and powerful extensions. Read more.
5:00pm–5:40pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Location: Sutton Center/Sutton South Level: Beginner
John Miller (Honeywell UOP)
John Miller offers an overview of the Emacs IPython Notebook (EIN), a full-featured client for the Jupyter Notebook in Emacs, and shares a brief history of its development. Read more.
5:00pm–5:40pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Location: Nassau Level: Intermediate
Scott Sanderson (Quantopian)
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 3 ratings)
Scott Sanderson explores how interactivity can and should influence the design of software libraries, details how the needs of interactive users differ from the needs of application developers, and shares techniques for improving the usability of libraries in interactive environments without sacrificing robustness in noninteractive environments. Read more.