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Python objects speak for themselves
One reason Python is so usable is that you can find out precisely how anything works.
We’ll see how to find out how to use any module, even if it’s not documented.
Then we’ll use ast
and dis
to minutely examine exactly how Python executes a very small program.
🤰 Pregnancy tracking with the power of Emoji
Guess what? Anvil is 25% pregnant! So I made us a pregnancy tracker app that uses weekly emoji to tell you how big bb is.
Also included: weekly email updates, the fastest unsubscribe in the west, and more nerding out about due dates than would fit in one post…
Deploying Machine Learning with Deepnote and Anvil
Deepnote is a new, slick data science notebook. But even a slick notebook isn’t enough for non-programmers.
We’ll show you how to deploy a machine learning model with a web UI, using Anvil and Deepnote’s Jupyter-compatible, collaboration-friendly notebook.
Generating Edgar Allan Poe with GPT-2
To celebrate Halloween, read a mostly coherent and entirely machine-generated scary story in the style of Edgar Allan Poe.
And generate your own grim and haunting tale using the Anvil app!
New: Build Your Own Portable Objects
Plotting in Pygal
Pygal is an interesting Python plotting library because it produces pretty SVG plots with little effort.
Style comes to the forefront, and the SVG plots are convenient for embedding in a web app.
The Source Awakens: Classifying Star Wars ships with Deep Learning
Let’s build a deep learning framework in a Jupyter notebook to classify different kinds of ships from the Star Wars universe!
Then we can hook our notebook up to Anvil to share it with the world.
Python vs the Pandemic
2020 has been a difficult year for people all around the world.
We’ve seen an incredible response from the Anvil community, with a number of our users building tools and applications to help deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ll take a look at some of the tools being built with Anvil to help people impacted by the virus.
Example Dashboards Built with Python
Looking for inspiration on how to present your data?
Take a look at our dashboard showcase to see some of the beautiful dashboards people have built with Anvil.
How I Built Clockify in 1 day
Stuart asked, what can be done in one working day with Anvil?
His answer, Clockify, a time tracking app. This walk-through documents his process from inception to time tracking application, all in 24 hours.