Jupyter in Production

Please join us for a gathering of the PyData Pittsburgh group! We'll be at the Outdoor Classroom at the Frick Environmental Center in Frick Park.

To find the Outdoor Classroom:

1. First, walk to the large fountain near the Frick Environmental Center.
2. Turn back towards the park entrance.
3. Approach the Frick Environmental Center building using the elevated walkway.
4. You'll reach the Outdoor Classroom on your left just before you enter the building.

Please see the map in the "photos" section of the event listing.

The space is open-air but covered, so we'll be there rain or shine. Parking is available in the Frick Environmental Center's parking lot. Plentiful street parking is also available along Beechwood Boulevard.

The main event will be the talk Jupyter in Production by Patrick Harrison:

Over the last ten years, Jupyter Notebooks have firmly established themselves as an indispensable environment for data analysis and machine learning development. However, Jupyter Notebooks can be difficult to integrate, deploy, and operationalize within conventional software engineering workflows, so much so that some software engineers and DevOps specialists discourage the use of Jupyter at all.

Recently, many dedicated developers have been creating a new ecosystem of tools that address the challenges of using Jupyter in production software environments. In this talk, we'll explore some of these tools and show how they can be used to retain the flexibility, interactivity, and rich expressiveness of Jupyter Notebooks in data analysis and machine learning workflows in production.