Telling Your Data Story with Bokeh

Lecture

Speaker(s)

Sarah Bird

Software Engineer, Continuum Analytics

Sarah Bird is a software engineer at Continuum Analytics. She has been a core Bokeh developer since 2015 and has given numerous talks and tutorials on Bokeh. Previously, she worked at Aptivate as a full-stack web developer building IT solutions for the international development sector. She has worked in a variety of sectors from systems engineering for ejection seats to mobile health and data collection in Pakistan. Sarah holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Cambridge University and a master of science in technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Friday, October 7, 2016

BIDS Data Science Lecture Series | October 7, 2016 | 1:10-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Bokeh is a data visualization library that gives you the power of custom interactive visualizations that you can publish on the web but lets you build them in Python. It can also be used as an exploratory data-analysis tool, and staying in the language of your analysis means that you can move seamlessly into presentation. This can be very powerful. In this talk, Sarah will cover the following:

  • Some of Bokeh's capabilities for data exploration
  • How visualizations can be a tool to present your analysis in a way that is understandable to non-specialists without dumbing down your content
  • How to build up your data story with Bokeh
  • Building up a sophisticated interactive graphic using Bokeh

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