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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

Before we can work with new Streamlit Components, we need to download them first. We can download each using pip (or any other package manager), just as we did with Streamlit in Chapter 1, An Introduction to Streamlit. These are the components to be downloaded:

  • streamlit-embedcode: To download this library, run the following code in your terminal: 
    pip install streamlit-embedcode

    streamlit-embedcode makes it easy to import code blocks from other locations (such as a GitHub gist) and show them directly in your apps, and was created by Randy Zwitch, a Streamlit employee. 

  • streamlit-lottie: To download this library, run the following code in your terminal:
    pip install streamlit-lottie

    streamlit-lottie uses the lottie open source library to allow us to add web-native animations (such as a Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) file) into our Streamlit apps. It is frankly a wonderful library for beautifying Streamlit apps and was created by Andy...