Fritz Lekschas
Fritz Lekschas is a computer scientist researching scalable visual exploration of biomedical data. As the Head of Visualization Research at Ozette Technologies, he is leading the development of web-based data visualization and exploration tools for analyzing high-dimensional single-cell data. Fritz earned his PhD in computer science from Harvard University, where he was advised by Hanspeter Pfister and Nils Gehlenborg. He has published more than twenty peer-reviewed papers and his work has been recognized with several awards.
In his free time, Fritz likes to work on open-source tools for visual data exploration like Jupyter Scatter.
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Jupyter Widgets connect Python objects with web-based visualizations and UIs, enabling both programmatic and interactive manipulation of data and code. For example, lasso some points in a scatterplot visualization and access that selection in Python as a DataFrame.
anywidget makes it simple and enjoyable to bring these capabilities to your own Python classes, and it ensures easy installation and usage by end users in various environments. In this tutorial, you will create your own custom widgets with anywidget and learn the skills to be effective in extending your own Python classes with web-based superpowers.