Show your work: Tutorial on building and hosting web applications
TL;DR
Learn how to turn your Python functions into interactive web applications using open-source tools. By the end, each of us will have deployed a portfolio (or store) with multiple web applications and learned how to reproduce it easily later on.
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Work not shown is work lost. Many excellent scientists and engineers are not always adept at showcasing their work. This results in many interesting scientific ideas that have never been brought to light.
However, using today's tools, one no longer has to leave the Python ecosystem to create classy, complete prototypes using modern data visualization and web development tools. With over five years of experience building and presenting data solutions at huge science companies, we show it doesn't have to be challenging. We provide a walkthrough of the primary web application frameworks and showcase Fast Dash, an open-source Python library that we built to address specific prototyping needs.
This tutorial is designed for all data professionals who value the ability to quickly convert their scientific code into web applications. Participants will learn about the leading frameworks, their strengths and limitations, and a decision flowchart for picking the best one for a given task. We will go through some day-to-day applications and hands-on Python coding throughout the session. Whether you bring your use-cases and datasets, or pick from our suggestions, you'll have a reproducible portfolio (app store) of deployed web applications by the end!
