Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 10 min

Questions

• How can we share Jupyter Notebook so they are interactive, can be run, and modified?

• What does it mean for code to “depend” on software?

• How can we explicitly define the dependencies for our code?

Objectives

• Create a shareable interactive binder for your online Jupyter notebooks.

• Create a requirements file listing dependencies for the notebooks in your repository.

Sharing an interactive repository with Binder

Authors: Chris Holdgraf, M Pacer

• Slideshow
• Simple sample notebook:
  • download
  • on Github
• Sample notebook with plotting:
  • download
  • on Github

Key Points

• Binder provides an environment that runs and interactively serves your Jupyter notebooks.

• Use requirements.txt to specify dependencies beyond the Jupyter notebook execution environment itself. Typically, this will at least be any package you import in your Python code.