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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

An Introduction to Streamlit

Streamlit is the fastest way to make data apps. It is an open-source Python library that helps you build web applications to be used for sharing analytical results, building complex interactive experiences, and iterating on top of new machine learning models. On top of that, developing and deploying Streamlit apps is incredibly fast and flexible, often reducing the application development time from days to hours.

In this chapter, we will start out with the Streamlit basics. We will learn how to download and run demo Streamlit apps, how to edit demo apps using our own text editor, how to organize our Streamlit apps, and finally, how to make our very own apps. Then, we will explore the basics of data visualization in Streamlit. We will learn how to accept some initial user input, and then add some finishing touches to our own apps with text. By the end of this chapter, you should be comfortable with starting to make your own Streamlit apps!

In particular, we will cover the following topics:

  • Why Streamlit?
  • Installing Streamlit
  • Organizing Streamlit apps
  • Streamlit plotting demo
  • Making an app from scratch

Before we begin, we will start with the technical requirements to make sure we have everything we need to get started.