2017-11-09 ESIP Tech Dive: "Jupyter Widgets", Jason Grout, Bloomberg
Summary: Jupyter widgets (aka ipywidgets) enables building interactive GUIs for Python code using standard form controls (sliders, dropdowns, textboxes, etc.), as well providing a framework for building complex interactive controls such as interactive 2d graphs, 3d graphics, maps, and more. The latest developments in Jupyter widgets were discussed, including cool examples with ipyleaflet and bqplot
Speaker: Jason Grout is scientific software developer at Bloomberg. He has been a member of the Project Jupyter team since it's inception in 2014 and a core developer for the Jupyter widgets project. He has a PhD in mathematics from Brigham Young University.