Client Meeting 1 - neuron-team/vscode-ipe GitHub Wiki

3 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Goal

• Make Visual Studio Code the EDITOR of choice for data scientists
• Not recreated Jupyter -> Useful Visual Tools with perks of editor

Big Challenges

• Customer can use any random libraries
• Keep the right pane memory usage constant

Build Steps

• Render in active buffer window (HTML)
  • Render Code + Output in window
• Done through framework
  • Angular.io/Webview Framework
  • Ideally memory kept constant, does not scale linearly
• Display output in ‘cards’ that can be rearranged

Interpreting Python Output

• Libraries used in Python know what to output based on MIME type
  • Library for graphing: how do we get the output from the python code? HTML output?

Saving State

• Save the state of window to file when editor closed and restore when open
• Associate Output windows with a Project/folder -> NOT a file
• File type that is opened upon reopening directory
• Extra: Initially use a single file and possibly elevate to root workspaces.

Survey

• Conduct a survey around data scientists, possibly within the college
• Microsoft team also offered the possibility to share with professional academics
• Questions must not be bias nor leading to any particular answer
• Lee Stott has connections for us to circulate a questionnaire

Miscellaneous

• Make sure it can be extended to R. Develop in a general, language agnostic way
• Meeting with the Microsoft team scheduled every 2 weeks; on demand as needed.
• Use GitHub. Slack to communicate. Email if more urgent.