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Analysts

Let people run your tools.

Journalists

Find tools for processing open data.

Researchers

Publish articles that link to tools.

Instructors

Create tools to illustrate concepts.
You wrote a script to generate a report that someone is going to scrutinize to make a decision. It took forever to painstakingly perfect the document and slides, but next week you will have to make the slides again. NOO!!
A colleague heard of your script and asks if you can run it on a different dataset. You start tweaking the script parameters when you realize that if you want to make it on time to your favorite class at the gym, you should have left ten minutes ago. NOOOO!!!!
WHY ARE YOU PASTING SCREENSHOTS INTO SLIDES?
What if your readers could run your script on their own?
Now you can deploy your script as a web tool and send the URL to your readers so that they can run it themselves.
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Open a notebook that has code you want or start from scratch.
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Press the Blue Button to preview your tool.
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Press the Red Button to deploy your tool.

Creators

Rod Miky (joined 6 years ago)
govind rathore (joined 7 years ago)
Jazmyn Fuller (joined 6 years ago)
Constantino Zenteno Jr. (joined 6 years ago)
Henry Weng (joined 5 years ago)

Here are our top creators! A creator is someone who has made at least one of their notebooks or tools public. Change the visibility of your notebooks and tools to public if you want to feature them on your profile.

Tools

Represent Values using Colors in an Image (created 3 years ago by Roy Hyunjin Han)
Design Microgrid (Solar) 20180515-1500 (1 star, created 6 years ago by Roy Hyunjin Han)
Plot data, Get fitted Line (created 7 years ago by Salah Ahmed)
Visualize Electrification Scenario (created 5 years ago by Roy Hyunjin Han)
Predict Metrics by Zipcode (created 5 years ago by Rocky Singh)

A tool is a computational script combined with a markdown interface that you can create and run in your browser. You can think of it as a programmable report.

Notebooks

FHV_BUS_Trips (created 5 years ago by Ning Wei, modified 5 years ago)
Python 3 Gotchas (created 7 years ago by Roy Hyunjin Han, modified 7 years ago)
UPqJb (created 7 years ago by Tembelihle Moyo, modified 7 years ago)
vim-reference (created 7 years ago by Salah Ahmed)
Predict bus ridership using median income and FHV trips per region (created 5 years ago by Henry Weng, modified 5 years ago)

Our website combines Jupyter Notebook with our framework through magic buttons that convert the notebook into a CrossCompute Tool. You can create tools directly in the browser or modify code from existing tools.

Workers

znxkz (created 5 years ago by Roy Hyunjin Han)
D4GX 20190915 (created 5 years ago by Rodrigo Guarachi)
eQkJS (created 5 years ago by Roy Hyunjin Han)
WB 20191005 (created 5 years ago by Roy Hyunjin Han)
pRzQ7 (created 5 years ago by Roy Hyunjin Han)

Workers run tools as requested by users. Save money on cloud computing expenses by running workers on your own machines.

Results

Testing for a Relationship Between Labor Trafficking and GDP in 2017 (created 6 years ago by Roy Hyunjin Han)
Estimate Electricity Cost by Technology from Population 20170224-2211 (created 7 years ago by Edwin Adkins)
Find the Nearest Basketball Court 20180303-0608 (created 6 years ago by Rajwinder Munder)
Search Food Vendor Status 20190127-0333 (created 5 years ago by Zipei Wang)
Search Food Vendor Status 20180304-1425 (created 6 years ago by Jazmyn Fuller)

Running a tool generates a result that the user can share with a link or make public.

Framework

Our tool framework is a set of open source packages that we have created for converting a script and configuration file into a web tool. The tool framework forms the core of our website, being responsible for converting notebooks into tools, rendering tool interfaces and running workers. See our documentation or browse our repositories.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I show a tool on my profile? Choose the notebooks and tools you want to feature on your profile and set their visibility to Public.

What if I want to send a tool but not show it on my profile? Hidden visibility means that the notebook or tool does not appear on your profile but can still be accessed via link.

Can I let users run my tools but not reveal my code? Make your notebooks secret if you do not want users to see the code for your tools.

Will I still have intellectual property over my code? Our Terms of Service clearly state that you retain intellectual property rights over your code.

Why are we doing this? We want to help Tool Creators like you!