GitHub Actions add useful automation to your development workflows, but too often your YAML files become a copy-and-pasted labrynth of scripts that lack any real structure. Treat your workflow YAML files as a code project in their own right or you’ll find your workflows get in the way of what they’re trying to achieve.

How to design GitHub Actions workflows with a beginning, middle, and end, so you can tear down your environment safely and notify your team accurately.

Renaming ‘master’ to ‘main’ is harder than you think because there is no such thing as a default branch in git

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New open source software to securely automate deployment of data scientists’ interactive visualizations in all languages and frameworks

Code simple experiments that highlight the different execution models behind the popular dashboarding frameworks Voila, Streamlit, and Plotly Dash

Understanding whether your Jupyter notebooks would be more useful as interactive dashboards

ContainDS Dashboards is an extension for JupyterHub allowing you to publish interactive visualizations for non-technical colleagues to try out. There are now a number of different open-source visualization frameworks supported out-of-the-box, and this post summarises those available, helping you decide which might be right for your project.

A new workflow allowing data scientists to deploy their own Plotly Dash apps to be shared automatically and securely with colleagues

How data scientists’ priorities and workflows may be the biggest data security threat to your organisation