Jupyter Newsletter 7 • September 28, 2016
Trending Notebooks, How to Submit a Story, Upcoming Events
Trending Notebooks
In 2015, GitHub began to render Jupyter Notebooks on their website. This feature has been very popular with our users, many of whom are storing their notebooks on GitHub. It opened the door for the broad sharing of computational narratives that combine code with equations, visualizations, and narrative text. Since the release of this feature, we’ve seen an increase in the total number of notebooks hosted on GitHub from approximately 200,000 to over half a million.
A common question we get from users is “how do we find interesting and popular notebooks?” One great place to find them is through GitHub’s trending notebooks. Check out what is trending this week: https://github.com/trending?l=jupyter-notebook&since=weekly
Popular Trending Notebooks
TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. It is a machine learning system that can perform various kinds of perceptual and language understanding tasks. They use Jupyter notebooks for tutorials and examples of TensorFlow in use. Various Google products, such as speech recognition, Gmail, and Google Photos, use TensorFlow for both research and production.
FiveThirtyEight is a data-driven news organization that bases its articles on statistical conclusions. They use Jupyter notebooks to publish their data, to do analysis, and to release intriguing articles. Articles like “Be Suspicious Of Online Movie Ratings, Especially Fandango’s” or “Hip-Hop Is Turning On Donald Trump” look at real world data sets to spot trends and develop these mainstream conclusions.
Call for story ideas
Do you have a Jupyter related success, use case, presentation, or idea that you would like included in an upcoming newsletter? We welcome your thoughts and input. Stories should be submitted in our Jupyter Newsletter repo’s issue tracker on GitHub. The submission should include a headline, 2–4 sentences that support the headline and a link to additional information on the topic (a slide deck, a video, a full blog post).
Featured Community Members
Ian Rose earned his PhD at UC Berkeley in Earth and Planetary Science after undergraduate training in Geophysics at Yale University. During his graduate studies he worked in computational geodynamics, modeling the thermal, chemical, and rotational evolution of Earth and other planetary bodies. In that time he developed software for modeling the physics of planetary interiors, as well as for Earth science education. He is a post-doctoral scholar at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science where his focus will be on bringing real-time collaboration to Project Jupyter.
Brian Granger is an Associate Professor of Physics and Data Science at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. He is a leader of the IPython project, co-founder of Project Jupyter and is an active contributor to a number of other open source projects focused on data science in Python. He is a board member of the NumFOCUS Foundation and a faculty fellow of the Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Upcoming events
PyData DC: October 7–9, 2016 The event brings together analysts, scientists, developers, engineers, architects and others from the data science community to discuss new techniques and tools for management, analytics and visualization of data. PyData brings together users and developers of data analysis tools in Python and other languages, like R and Julia. The PyData community gathers to discuss how best to apply languages and tools to continuously evolving challenges in data management, processing, analytics, and visualization.
Grace Hopper Open Source Day: October 21, 2016 For those registered for the Grace Hopper conference, Open Source Day is a day-long hackathon to develop projects for improving the world we live in. Participants will develop these humanitarian projects using open source software. Expected attendance for this event includes over 250 participants and more than 12 different projects. Carol Willing will be leading a project using Jupyter Notebook.
JupyterDay Hawaii: October 29 12pm - 4pm Our sixth JupyterDay is an afternoon workshop on the open-source Jupyter Notebook/IPython Project, including major components like the widely used Jupyter Notebook as well as the project’s underlying architecture and tools. The event will be an engaging mix of talks, discussions, hands-on training sessions, and hacking with topics spanning the full ecosystem of Jupyter.
Latest Developers Meeting
Want to join our next Jupyter developers’ meeting?
The entire Jupyter community is welcome to join our weekly developers’ meeting which is held every Tuesday at 9am PST. The purpose of this gathering is for the core Jupyter development team to share important Jupyter, JupyterHub, and IPython news.
To join the web cam meeting: www.bluejeans.com/jupyter
To sign up to speak/see notes: visit the Jupyter HackPad
To let us know you’re joining: wait for the weekly post on GitterIM (usually on Monday) asking the community if they plan on attending. Add your name to the list.
