[Tutor] Was: Basic Question about Visualization for enduser

[David L Neil]

On 26/06/19 4:56 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 25/06/2019 15:52, Sinardy Xing wrote:
> 
>> My question is, how currently all of this great technology glue together
>> and as a final product for the enduser. Because I cant imagine that we
>> install Anaconda Jupyter Notebook at frontend for the enduser to use it,
>> and give end user bunch of *.py
> 
> You sort of can and there are tools for wrapping it all up in an
> installable package. More commonly you create a desktop application
> using the GUI toolkit of your choice and generate the graphical output
> and display it yourself (using pyplot etc)


NB this is NOT intended as a discussion about the specifics of the OP's 
situation, nor of the OP personally!


This illustrates an interesting (at least to me?us) side-effect: in 
order to reduce "cognitive load" we often introduce training by using 
the most straight-forward or 'simple' tools. In this case Jupyter (which 
I think a most marvellous invention).

However, such illustrative devices are often not what is used in the 
'average' development department (assuming there is such a thing). Thus 
the training meets the knowledge-need (we hope) but not the requirements 
of practical application in the work-place.

On the other hand, should training in Python, and more specifically, the 
likes of matplotlib, involve any forlorn attempt at universal coverage 
of 'the programmer's tool-set'?


Your thoughts?
-- 
Regards =dn