Lecture 4 - Widgets & Traitlets for Interactivity
We talk about the basics of using Traitlets and data binding in visualization.
Beginning interactivity
This week we will learn about ipywidgets and traitlets and apply them to visualizations in Python.
Optional Reading List
- Intro to ipywidgets
- Example Widgets Notebooks
- VAD Ch. 7: Arrange Tables
- FDV, Ch. 7: Visualizing distributions: Histograms and density plots
Lectures
Examples
Prep Notebook, Week 4 - (download)
Prep notebook for this week
Extra prep notebook - (download)
Extra prep notebook for Week 4
Past Notebook: spring2019_notes_week04_part1.ipynb - (download)
Past Notebook: spring2019_notes_week04_part2.ipynb - (download)
Data
The UFO Sitings Dataset (13Mb)
Data about world wide reports of UFO sitings
Measurments taken from around Lake Michigan