Using the glam workbench

Australian Woman's Mirror, 13 November 1934, p. 39

start exploring!

select a topic

The GLAM Workbench is organised by repository, collection type, or topic.

Each topic includes a list of Jupyter notebooks (& sometimes data sources)

Notebooks

For each notebook there's a number of different links

notebook LINKS

WHY are there multiple links?

• Each link provides a different view of the notebook
• Some are static and some are live
• Each view has a different purpose

static vs live

• static views let you look at a notebook, but you can't edit them or run code
• live views let you view, edit, and run the code

GiTHUB

GitHub provides easy access to the notebook's code

NBVIEWER

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/

NBViewer provides a nicely rendered version of the notebook that's great for sharing

LIVE LINKS OPEN IN

• 'Classic' notebook
• Jupyter Lab
• or Appmode

The 'CLASSIC' notebook

One notebook per browser tab

JUPYTER LAB

Multiple notebooks (& file explorer) in a single desktop

APPMODE

Hides the code & runs the notebook as an app

APPMODE IN ACTION

https://glam-workbench.github.io/csv-explorer/

BUT WHERE are the live notebooks actually running?

• the live links open using Binder
• Binder creates a customised computing environment & loads the notebook in it
• runs in your browser, no need to install any software
• be patient! it can take a little while to load

CLICKING on a binder link

BINDER LIMITATIONS

• inactive notebooks are closed after about 10 minutes
• your work is not saved between sessions, download what you want to keep!

EXPLORE & EXPERIMENT!

Created by Tim Sherratt for the

GLAM Workbench.

This work is licensed under a
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