nbinteract 0.2.0

nbinteract
=================

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`nbinteract` is a Python package that creates interactive webpages from Jupyter
notebooks. `nbinteract` also has built-in support for interactive plotting.
These interactions are driven by data, not callbacks, allowing authors to focus
on the logic of their programs.

`nbinteract` is most useful for:

- Data scientists that want to create simple interactive blog posts without having
to know / work with Javascript.
- Instructors that want to include interactive examples in their textbooks.
- Students that want to publish data analysis that contains interactive demos.

Currently, `nbinteract` is in an alpha stage because of its quickly-changing
API.

## Examples

Most plotting functions from other libraries (e.g. `matplotlib`) take data as
input. `nbinteract`'s plotting functions take functions as input.

```python
import numpy as np
import nbinteract as nbi

def normal(mean, sd):
'''Returns 1000 points drawn at random fron N(mean, sd)'''
return np.random.normal(mean, sd, 1000)

# Pass in the `normal` function and let user change mean and sd.
# Whenever the user interacts with the sliders, the `normal` function
# is called and the returned data are plotted.
nbi.hist(normal, mean=(0, 10), sd=(0, 2.0), options=options)
```


Simulations are easy to create using `nbinteract`. In this simulation, we roll
a die and plot the running average of the rolls. We can see that with more
rolls, the average gets closer to the expected value: 3.5.

```python
rolls = np.random.choice([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], size=300)
averages = np.cumsum(rolls) / np.arange(1, 301)

def x_vals(num_rolls):
return range(num_rolls)

# The function to generate y-values gets called with the
# x-values as its first argument.
def y_vals(xs):
return averages[:len(xs)]

nbi.line(x_vals, y_vals, num_rolls=(1, 300))
```


## Publishing

>From a notebook cell:

```python
# Run in a notebook cell to convert the notebook into a publishable HTML page:
#
# nbi.publish('my_binder_spec', 'my_notebook.ipynb')
#
# Replace my_binder_spec with a Binder spec in the format
# {username}/{repo}/{branch} (e.g. SamLau95/nbinteract-image/master).
#
# Replace my_notebook.ipynb with the name of the notebook file to convert.
#
# Example:
nbi.publish('SamLau95/nbinteract-image/master', 'homepage.ipynb')
```

>From the command line:

```bash
# Run on the command line to convert the notebook into a publishable HTML page.
#
# nbinteract my_binder_spec my_notebook.ipynb
#
# Replace my_binder_spec with a Binder spec in the format
# {username}/{repo}/{branch} (e.g. SamLau95/nbinteract-image/master).
#
# Replace my_notebook.ipynb with the name of the notebook file to convert.
#
# Example:
nbinteract SamLau95/nbinteract-image/master homepage.ipynb
```

For more information on publishing, see the [tutorial][] which has a complete
walkthrough on publishing a notebook to the web.

## Installation

Using `pip`:

```bash
pip install nbinteract

# The next two lines can be skipped for notebook version 5.3 and above
jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix bqplot
```

You may now import the `nbinteract` package in Python code and use the
`nbinteract` CLI command to convert notebooks to HTML pages.

## Tutorial and Documentation

[Here's a link to the tutorial and docs for this project.][docs]

## Developer Install

If you are interested in developing this project locally, run the following:

```
git clone https://github.com/SamLau95/nbinteract
cd nbinteract

# Installs the nbconvert exporter
pip install -e .

# To export a notebook to interactive HTML format:
jupyter nbconvert --to interact notebooks/Test.ipynb

pip install -U ipywidgets
jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension

brew install yarn
yarn install

# Start notebook and webpack servers
make -j2 serve
```

## Feedback

If you have any questions or comments, send us a message on the
[Gitter channel][gitter]. We appreciate your feedback!

## Contributors

`nbinteract` is originally developed by [Sam Lau][sam] and Caleb Siu as part of
a Masters project at UC Berkeley. The code lives under a BSD 3 license and we
welcome contributions and pull requests from the community.

[tutorial]: /tutorial/tutorial_getting_started.html
[ipywidgets]: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets
[bqplot]: https://github.com/bloomberg/bqplot
[widgets]: http://jupyter.org/widgets.html
[gh-pages]: https://pages.github.com/
[gitbook]: http://gitbook.com/
[install-nb]: http://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html
[docs]: https://www.nbinteract.com/
[sam]: http://www.samlau.me/
[gitter]: https://gitter.im/nbinteract/Lobby/