b2-presentation

Materials for the presentation of the paper: "B2: Bridging Code and Interactive Visualization in Computational Notebooks" (Yifan Wu, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Arvind Satyanarayan — UIST 2020).

Quickstart

Slide deck

You can check the slide deck online here (press f to switch to full screen mode). On the other hand, you can also find the slide deck in PDF format here.

Demo

If necessary, install Anaconda or Miniconda first, please.

• make init
• make nb

or

• conda env create -f environment.yml.
• conda activate b2-presentation.
• jupyter nbextension enable --py b2 --sys-prefix.
• jupyter notebook

Notes

• renv (Pipenv for R):
  • To start a new environment: renv::init().
  • To save the state of the project library to the lockfile: renv::snapshot().
• Conda environment:
  • List available environments: conda info --envs.
  • conda create --no-default-packages -n b2-presentation -c r r-base=3.6.1.
  • conda activate b2-presentation.
  • conda install -c r rstudio.
  • conda install -c r r-xaringan.
  • conda install pip.
  • pip install -r requirements.txt.
  • conda env export > environment.yml.
  • conda remove -n b2-presentation --all.
• DeckTape (to generate a PDF file from the slides):
  • sudo npm install -g decktape --unsafe-perm=true.
  • decktape --chrome-arg=--disable-web-security remark slides.html slides.pdf.
• xaringanthemer.
• Configuration options available for remark (nature argument).
• Emojis.