Python Dashboards Training

A Dashbaords is a useful tool to present data for reporting and exploration. The added value is that a dashboard can be interactive. Python has several frameworks to easily create dashboards, and you will learn about their relative strengths and weaknesses based on some real-world use cases.

Learning outcomes

When you complete this training you will

• be able to create simple dashboards for reporting purposes;
• be able to create simple web applications;
• learn how to deploy dashboards on Github;
• learn how to deploy web application on streamlit.io;
• learn how to deploy a web application on Amazon EC2;
• know which libraries and frameworks to choose depending on your project requirements.

Schedule

Total duration: 2 hours.

• Introduction and motivation | 5 min.
• Panel | 40 min.
• Deploying on Github | 10 min.
• Streamlit | 40 min.
• Deploying on streamlit.io | 10 min. 
• Amazon EC2 | 10 min.
• Wrap up | 5 min.

Training materials

Slides are available in the GitHub repository, as well as example code and hands-on material.

Target audience

This training is for you if you need to use Python for data analysis.

Prerequisites

You will need experience programming in Python. This is not a training that starts from scratch. Familiarity with pandas is not required but would be beneficial.

If you plan to do Python programming in a Linux or HPC environment you should be familiar with these as well.

Trainer(s)

• Geert Jan Bex (geertjan.bex@uhasselt.be)