KICKSTART:
Gentle Introduction to Developing Modern Web Apps in R & Python

Learn to productionize your data science work by picking up complementary skills in web application development

Course Summary

The workshop aims to provide a beginner-friendly introduction to packaging your data science work into a user-friendly, modernly-themed web analytics application.

Corporate consultant and course producer Samuel Chan has worked for a number of public-listed company prior to his role at Algoritma. His involvement has always heavily centered around product development, from building chatbots for companies to developing cloud-based products. In this workshop, he will walk us through his favorite tools, workflow, and productivity tips:

  • Recommendations on productionizing R code
  • The Shiny framework for data scientists
  • Using Python’s web frameworks for application development
  • TensorFlow as a web service
  • Cloud deployment options for R- or Python-based applications
  • Production concerns: security, uptime, and continuous integration
  • Productivity tools for real-life data science: Git, IDE extensions, Virtual Environments vs Docker

Schedule

  • Know-your-neighbors

    Registration and Networking
    12:30 – 13:00

  • Introduction to data science tools on modern web stack

    13:00 – 13:45

  • Code Along: Developing your first web app in R

    13:45 – 15:00

  • Deploying machine learning and visualization code in Python

    15:00 – 15:45

  • Q&A

    15:45 – 16:00