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Getting Started with Streamlit for Data Science

By : Tyler Richards
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Getting Started with Streamlit for Data Science

By: Tyler Richards

Overview of this book

Streamlit shortens the development time for the creation of data-focused web applications, allowing data scientists to create web app prototypes using Python in hours instead of days. Getting Started with Streamlit for Data Science takes a hands-on approach to helping you learn the tips and tricks that will have you up and running with Streamlit in no time. You'll start with the fundamentals of Streamlit by creating a basic app and gradually build on the foundation by producing high-quality graphics with data visualization and testing machine learning models. As you advance through the chapters, you’ll walk through practical examples of both personal data projects and work-related data-focused web applications, and get to grips with more challenging topics such as using Streamlit Components, beautifying your apps, and quick deployment of your new apps. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create dynamic web apps in Streamlit quickly and effortlessly using the power of Python.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Creating Basic Streamlit Applications
7
Section 2: Advanced Streamlit Applications
11
Section 3: Streamlit Use Cases

Technical requirements

Here are the installations and setup required for this chapter:

  • The requirements for this book are to have Python 3.7 (or later) downloaded (https://www.python.org/downloads/), and have a text editor to edit Python files in. Any text editor will do. I use Sublime (https://www.sublimetext.com/3).
  • Some sections of this book use GitHub, and a GitHub account is recommended (https://github.com/join). Understanding how to use Git is not necessary for this book but is always useful. If you want to get started, this link has a useful tutorial: https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/.
  • A basic understanding of Python is also very useful for this book. If you are not there yet, feel free to spend some time getting to know Python better using this tutorial (https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/) or any other of the freely and readily available tutorials out there, and come back here when you are ready. We also need to have the Streamlit library installed, which we will do and test in a later section called Installing Streamlit.