Using Jupyter Widgets

Jupyter Widgets (a.k.a ipywidgets) are a way to build interactive GUIs in Jupyter notebooks.

For more information about widgets, see the documentation.

Setup

Support for widgets needs to be enabled globally in the DSS Jupyter notebook by an administrator

  • Go to the DSS data directory

  • Run the following commands, where

    • DATADIR is the absolute path to the DSS data directory

    • INSTALLDIR is the absolute path to the DSS installation directory (dataiku-dss-X.Y.Z)

    JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR="$DATADIR/jupyter-run/jupyter" JUPYTER_DATA_DIR="$DATADIR/jupyter-run/jupyter"  PYTHONPATH="$INSTALLDIR/dku-jupyter/packages/" ./bin/python -m notebook.nbextensions install --py widgetsnbextension --user

JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR="$DATADIR/jupyter-run/jupyter" JUPYTER_DATA_DIR="$DATADIR/jupyter-run/jupyter"  PYTHONPATH="$INSTALLDIR/dku-jupyter/packages/" ./bin/python -m notebook.nbextensions enable --py widgetsnbextension

  • Check installation:

    JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR="$DATADIR/jupyter-run/jupyter" JUPYTER_DATA_DIR="$DATADIR/jupyter-run/jupyter"  PYTHONPATH="$INSTALLDIR/dku-jupyter/packages/" ./bin/python -m notebook.nbextensions list

This command should have output like:

jupyter-js-widgets/extension  enabled
 - Validating: OK

  • Edit bin/env-site.sh and add the following line

    export JUPYTER_CONFIG_DIR="$DIP_HOME/jupyter-run/jupyter"

  • Restart DSS

Using widgets

Open a new notebook, and enter sample widget code:

Note

If you are using a custom code env, don’t forget to included the ipywidgets package in your code env

import ipywidgets

ipywidgets.IntSlider()

A slider should appear. You can now use ipywidgets.