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Streamlit for Data Science - Second Edition

By : Tyler Richards
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Streamlit for Data Science - Second Edition

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By: Tyler Richards

Overview of this book

If you work with data in Python and are looking to create data apps that showcase ML models and make beautiful interactive visualizations, then this is the ideal book for you. Streamlit for Data Science, Second Edition, shows you how to create and deploy data apps quickly, all within Python. This helps you create prototypes in hours instead of days! Written by a prolific Streamlit user and senior data scientist at Snowflake, this fully updated second edition builds on the practical nature of the previous edition with exciting updates, including connecting Streamlit to data warehouses like Snowflake, integrating Hugging Face and OpenAI models into your apps, and connecting and building apps on top of Streamlit databases. Plus, there is a totally updated code repository on GitHub to help you practice your newfound skills. You'll start your journey with the fundamentals of Streamlit and gradually build on this foundation by working with machine learning models and producing high-quality interactive apps. The practical examples of both personal data projects and work-related data-focused web applications will help you get to grips with more challenging topics such as Streamlit Components, beautifying your apps, and quick deployment. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create dynamic web apps in Streamlit quickly and effortlessly.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Machine Learning and AI with Streamlit

A very common situation data scientists find themselves in is at the end of the model creation process, not knowing exactly how to convince non-data scientists that their model is worthwhile. They might have performance metrics from their model or some static visualizations but have no easy way to allow others to interact with their model.

Before Streamlit, there were a couple of other options, the most popular being creating a full-fledged app in Flask or Django or even turning a model into an Application Programming Interface (API) and pointing developers toward it. These are great options but tend to be time-consuming and suboptimal for valuable use cases such as prototyping an app.

The incentives for teams are a little misaligned here. Data scientists want to create the best models for their teams, but if they need to take a day or two (or, if they have experience, a few hours) of work to turn their model into a Flask or Django...