Leveraging Jupyter to

build an Excel-Python bridge

JupyterCON 2017

Christine Doig, Senior Product Manager & Data Scientist

Fabio Pliger, Tech Lead

August 24th, 2017

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Overview & Examples

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How to increase by 100x the impact of
data science in your organization?

Data Scientist Business Analysts

Jupyter Users Excel Users
Est. 3-6 million Est. 750 Million

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Business analysts vs Data scientists

Works with: Excel, Tableau, SQL Python, Hadoop, Spark

Data: spreadsheets, tables dataframes, arrays
Delivers: Reports, dashboards, Notebooks, code, interactive
spreadsheets visualizations

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Business analysts are being left out of the
data science revolution

Interactive Data
Visualizations
Statistics and
Advanced Analytics

Machine Learning
Big Data & ETL

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Anaconda Fusion is a bridge between Excel & Python

Interactive Data
Visualizations
Statistics and
Advanced Analytics

Machine Learning
Big Data & ETL

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Analysts and Data Scientists can keep using their
preferred tools

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Self-service Big Data analytics
Jupyter
notebook

Interactive Data Visualizations Head node

Compute
nodes
Machine Learning Predictions

Extract, transform
and query data

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“No Code” Data Science Example

Select Anaconda Select function Click “Run” Data is loaded

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Fusion Notebook you wish to run into spreadsheet
and click “Upload”

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Just change one line of code in your
notebook

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 Anaconda Fusion use cases

• Extract data - pull data directly into Excel to

perform analysis
• Machine Learning – use trained models
created by Data Scientists and plug them
into your spreadsheet data
• Interactive Visualizations – create custom
advanced interactive graphs, charts and
plots from Excel data Figure: Anaconda Fusion on Mac

• Big Data – analyze, transform, model and

query data stored in Hadoop and Spark

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Examples
• Run Queries
• Run Predictive Models
• Running Big Data Text Analytics

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Features & architecture

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Features – Formula bar

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Features – Write back to Excel

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Features – Interactive visualizations

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Features – Save custom advanced visualizations

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Jupyter as a Platform
• OSS – base of most successful modern software
• Maturity – long history
• Diversity
• 100s of projects
• 1000s of contributors
• Vision
• Jupyterlab
• Community & Support
• Popularity

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 Jupyter As a Tech Choice
• The jupyter ecosystem
• https://github.com/jupyter
• https://github.com/jupyterlab
• https://github.com/phosphorjs
• Great community/support
• Very pluggable*
• Perfect for our use case
• I.e.: why can’t excel have ML?
• i.e.: why can’t excel do things that numpy/pandas do?
• i.e.: we need better graphics (ala bokeh ;) ) for a dashboard of our
metrics in excel

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Use Case

fusion Fusion
Server
Excel

Notebook

kernels

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Use case Excel Apps
fusion

API Anaconda Platform

Notebooks, Apps, …

kernels

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A marketplace for Anaconda Fusion notebooks

https://anaconda.org

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THANK YOU!

Christine Doig
cdoig@continuum.io
@ch_doig

Fabio Pliger
fpliger@continuum.io
@b_smoke

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QUESTIONS?

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