James A. Bednar
Jim Bednar is the Senior Director of Professional Services at Anaconda, Inc. Dr. Bednar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, along with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Philosophy. He has published more than 50 papers and books about the visual system, software development, and reproducible science. Dr. Bednar founded the HoloViz project, a collection of open-source Python tools that includes Panel, hvPlot, Datashader, HoloViews, GeoViews, Param, Lumen, and Colorcet. Dr. Bednar was a Lecturer and Reader in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh from 2004-2015, and previously worked in hardware engineering and data acquisition at National Instruments.
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This tutorial will show you how to use the Pandas, Dask, or Xarray APIs you already know to interactively explore and visualize your data, even if the data is gigabyte or petabyte sized or is in non-columnar scientific formats such as multidimensional arrays, networks, or unstructured grids. As soon as you have something you like, you can then share a live app as HTML+WASM or backed by a live Python server, by simply replacing your expression arguments with widgets so that users can explore it on their own. These tools let you focus on your data rather than the API, and let you build linked, interactive drill-down exploratory apps without having to run a web-technology software development project, which you can then share without becoming an operations specialist.
Installation instructions: https://holoviz.org/tutorial/Setup.html