In the last year I've started presenting work using Jupyter Notebooks, rebelling against the Bill Gates'-driven status-quo. Here I'll explain how to do it. It's not difficult, but in my opinion makes presentations look slicker, whilst allowing you to run code live in a presentation if you like. First, we need to download the plug-in that gives us the presentation functionality, it's called RISE. We can do this easily using pip in a terminal window:
pip install RISE
Once installed, our first move is to add the presentation toggles to our notebook cells. We do this by clicking View in the menu bar, then Cell Toolbar, then Slideshow:
This adds a Slide Type
dropdown to each cell in the notebook. Here we can choose one of five options:
As with any notebook, we can define the cell type to be either Markdown
or Code
. As you'd expect, we present any text or image-based slide in Markdown
, reserving the Code
cell type if and only if we want to explicitly run some code in the presentation. If you aren't familiar, Markdown is a straightforward language for text foramtting; I won't go into the details here, but suffice to say you can learn the basics of Markdown in 5 minutes. You can find a useful cheatsheet here.
I can create bullet points easily:
And I can add tables easily too:
Presentation Software | Rating (scale: [0,10]) |
---|---|
MS Powerpoint | -3 |
RISE | 11 |
# Here's an example of a Code slide!
print('I\'m using RISE to present code in Jupyter Notebooks!')
I'm using RISE to present code in Jupyter Notebooks!
Adding images is easy too. I advise creating a sub-directory in your working directory calles /images
and storing anything you want to present there. Then you display them in a markdown file using some simple HTML syntax:
<img class="" src="images/london_deaths.jpeg" style="width:75%">
You can manipulate the style
attribute to change the size of the image. Don't worry, this is the only HTML you need to know!
To view your slideshow click on the bar-chart button in the menu bar. This will start the presentation from the cell currently selected:
That's it! This tutorial has given you an introduction to the basics of RISE for presenting with Jupyter Notebooks, you can of course customise these to your heart's content using further plug-ins and more advanced Markdown. Here's a summary of the useful links from this document to finish: