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Learning Jupyter

By : Dan Toomey
Book Image

Learning Jupyter

By: Dan Toomey

Overview of this book

Jupyter Notebook is a web-based environment that enables interactive computing in notebook documents. It allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text. The Jupyter Notebook system is extensively used in domains such as data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, machine learning, and much more. This book starts with a detailed overview of the Jupyter Notebook system and its installation in different environments. Next we’ll help you will learn to integrate Jupyter system with different programming languages such as R, Python, JavaScript, and Julia and explore the various versions and packages that are compatible with the Notebook system. Moving ahead, you master interactive widgets, namespaces, and working with Jupyter in a multiuser mode. Towards the end, you will use Jupyter with a big data set and will apply all the functionalities learned throughout the book.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Jupyter
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 6.  Interactive Widgets

There is a mechanism built for Jupyter to gather input from the user as the script is running. To do this, we put in coding in the form of a widget or user interface control in the script. The widgets we will use in this chapter are defined at http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ .

There are widgets for the following:

  • Text input: Notebook users enter a string that will be used later in the script.

  • Button clicks: The user is presented with multiple options in the form of buttons; then, depending on which button is selected (clicked on), your script can change direction according to the user.

  • Slider: You can provide the user with a slider with which the user can select a value within the range you specify, and then your script can use that value accordingly.

  • Toggle box and checkboxes: The user selects the different options of your script that they are interested in working with.

  • Progress bar: If your script will take some time to process, it would...