James A. Bednar
Jim Bednar is the Director of Custom Services at Anaconda, Inc. Dr. Bednar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, along with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Philosophy. He has published more than 50 papers and books about the visual system, software development, and reproducible science. Dr. Bednar manages the HoloViz project, a collection of open-source Python tools that includes Panel, hvPlot, Datashader, HoloViews, GeoViews, Param, Lumen, and Colorcet. Dr. Bednar was a Lecturer and Reader in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh from 2004-2015, and previously worked in hardware engineering and data acquisition at National Instruments.
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This tutorial will show you how to use the Pandas or Xarray APIs you already know to interactively explore and visualize your data even if it is big, streaming, or multidimensional. Then just replace your expression arguments with widgets to get a web app that you can share as HTML+WASM or backed by a live Python server. These tools let you focus on your data rather than the API, and let you build linked, interactive drill-down exploratory apps without having to run a web-technology software development project, which you can then share without becoming an operations specialist.
Each new SciPy brings even more tools for data visualization and for building data-rich scientific applications and dashboards. This BoF brings together maintainers of Python tools for data visualization and building apps to help make sense of this complex landscape for users and to highlight new developments, trends, and opportunities. Join us and stay ahead of the curve!