#Usability

A Simpler Tutorial on Jupyter (IPython) Widgets Jupyter widgets are an awesome tool for creating interactive dashboards, but documentation can be a little excessive if you’re just looking for basic functionality. It really doesn’t have to be so complicated. Our widget use-case My data visualization team wanted to provide researchers with a GUI for visualizing species distributions, and we wanted to give them the power and flexibility to specify different parameters. [Read More]

VMs for Usability Testing Dependency Nightmares This might be an unpopular opinion, but I imagine virtual machines could be a useful tool for usability testers. When it comes to learning a new software or using a new tool, it’s the absolute worst finding out that certain dependencies aren’t listed in the requirements, or that they are not consistent with your own. This was a pain I experienced when I first started learning Ruby on Rails and MongoDB, and the tutorials I found wouldn’t work. [Read More]