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

Schedule: Kernels sessions

11:05am–11:45am Thursday, August 23, 2018
Going native: C++ as a first-class citizen of the Jupyter ecosystem
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.
5:00pm–5:40pm Thursday, August 23, 2018
SoS: A polyglot notebook and workflow system for both interactive multilanguage data analysis and batch data processing
Location: Murray Hill Level: Beginner
Bo Peng (The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center)
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. Read more.
2:40pm–3:20pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Using the MapD kernel for the Jupyter Notebook
Location: Murray Hill Level: Intermediate
Randy Zwitch (MapD)
MapD Core is an open source analytical SQL engine that has been designed from the ground up to harness the parallelism inherent in GPUs. This enables queries on billions of rows of data in milliseconds. Randy Zwitch offers an overview of the MapD kernel extension for the Jupyter Notebook and explains how to use it in a typical machine learning workflow. Read more.
4:10pm–4:50pm Friday, August 24, 2018
JupyterLab and Plotly: A data visualization power couple
Location: Nassau Level: Beginner
Lindsay Richman (McKinsey & Co.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
JupyterLab and Plotly both provide a rich set of tools for working with data. When combined, they create a powerful computational environment that enables users to produce versatile, robust visualizations in a fast-paced setting. Lindsay Richman demonstrates how to use JupyterLab, Plotly, and Plotly's Python-based Dash framework to create dynamic charts and interactive reports. Read more.