Simula Progress Report
Min Ragan-Kelley and Vidar Fauske
April 2017 - January 2018
Finance and administration
Martin Alnæs left Simula in October 2017, leaving some funding shifted to extend postdocs Fauske and Ragan-Kelley to finish the grant. This is represented in the latest Grant update. Ragan-Kelley is now the site leader for Simula.
Hiring
No hiring was done during this period.
Achievements
- new packages for 3d visualization in notebooks: ipydatawidgets and unray toward (D4.12, T4.8)
- Integration of nbdime into JupyterLab (T4.2)
- new Jupyter notebook extension for nbdime (T4.2)
- 1.0 release of nbdime (T4.2)
- improvements to nbval for testing notebooks (T4.3)
- new package thebelab for interactive execution of non-notebook webpages (T4.4)
- Extensive development on Jupyter Widgets infrastructure for visualization (T4.8)
Work in progress
- Significant progress toward D4.12 in the IPython widgets ecosystem
- Collaboration with Jupyter team on live collaboration in notebooks (D4.15)
Workshops and dissemination activities
- Jupyter and IPython facilitating open access and reproducible research, 2nd Conference on Non-Textual Information: Software and Services for Science (S3), 2017
- Interactive 3D Visualization in Jupyter Notebooks, EuroSciPy 2017
- Hosted Workshop on Live Structured Documents at Simula in October, 2017
- Participated in Jupyter Widgets workshop in Paris, January 2018
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