SuperNOVA: Design Strategies and Opportunities for Interactive Visualization in Computational Notebooks

Wang, Zijie J.; Munechika, David; Lee, Seongmin; Chau, Duen Horng

doi:10.1145/3613905.3650848

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“…Tools for data visualization and interactivity have greater impact when compatible with more platforms, but achieving compatibility involves trade-offs (Wang et al, 2024). The full capabilities of the widget system, such as bidirectional communication, are often inaccessible to authors due to development difficulty and maintenance efforts.…”

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“…Adopting standards can minimize these impediments, enabling both broad compatibility and advanced capabilities for users. A recent article enumerates these challenges and advocates for standardized solutions to democratize the creation of notebook visualization tools across notebook platforms (Wang et al, 2024). Anywidget addresses this by introducing a standard that removes friction in widget development and sharing, making authorship practical and accessible.…”

Section: Impact and Outlookmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Any notebook served: authoring and sharing reusable interactive widgets

Manz,

Gehlenborg,

Abdennur

2024

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The open-source Jupyter project has fostered a robust ecosystem around notebook-based computing, resulting in diverse Jupyter-compatible platforms (e.g., JupyterLab, Google Colab, VS Code). Jupyter Widgets extend these environments with custom visualizations and interactive elements that communicate directly with user code and data. While this bidirectional communication makes the widget system powerful, its architecture is currently tightly coupled to platforms. As a result, widgets are complex and error-prone to author and distribute, limiting the potential of the wider widget ecosystem. Here we describe the motivation and approach behind the anywidget project, a specification and toolset for portable and reusable web-based widgets in interactive computing environments. It ensures cross-platform compatibility by using the web browser’s built-in module system to load these modules from the notebook kernel. This design simplifies widget authorship and distribution, enables rapid prototyping, and lowers the barrier to entry for newcomers. Anywidget is compatible with not just JCPs but any web-based notebook platform or authoring environment and is already adopted by other projects. Its adoption has sparked a widget renaissance, improving reusability, interoperability, and making interactive computing more accessible.

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Section: Impact and Outlookmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Impact and Outlookmentioning

confidence: 99%