Hi all,

yesterday, I used mybinder.org to deliver a Python/Pandas lesson based on Data 
Carpentry’s Python for Ecologists - worked flawlessly.

Details here,

http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2017-four-steps-five-minutes-binder.html

Upsides:

* ~instantly give a class of 30 people separate but identical Jupyter Notebooks 
configured with data etc. etc.
* very quick to configure and test!
* no local install of packages other than a modern Web browser!

Downsides:

* environment expires after ~5 minutes of inactivity, so it’s best for quick 
demos and short workshops.
* no local install of packages so students don’t walk away with a functioning 
environment on their own laptop :(

(Soon there will be the option of providing RStudio Server binders, but not 
quite yet.)

cheers,
—titus

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