Amit Saha: Presentation slides with Jupyter Notebook

I presented at the PyCon 2016 Education Summit on "Doing Math with Python" day before yesterday and a lightning talk yesterday. This is the first time, I prepared a slide deck using Jupyter Notebook + Reveal.js. I was pleased with the content creation process and the end result. So, here is what worked for me.

Basically, there are two steps:

• Create content in a Jupyter Notebook
• Use jupyter-nbconvert to convert the notebook to a HTML/JS based slide deck

Finally, I hosted the slide deck on GitHub pages.

Please note that, you will need the latest version of jupyter-notebook (4.2.0).

$ git clone git@github.com:<your-user-name>/jupyter-notebook-slides.git
$ cd jupyter-notebook-slides
$ # Start notebook server
$ # Edit your slides

$ ./publish.sh

#!/bin/bash

$ jupyter-nbconvert --to slides slides.ipynb --reveal-prefix=reveal.js
$ mv slides.slides.html  index.html
$ mkdir -p /tmp/workspace
$ cp -r * /tmp/workspace/
$ git add -A .
$ git commit -m "Update"
$ git checkout -B gh-pages
$ cp -r /tmp/workspace/* .
$ git add -A .
$ git commit -m "new version"
$ git push origin master gh-pages
$ git checkout master
$ rm -rf /tmp/workspace

$ jupyter-nbconvert --to slides slides.ipynb --reveal-prefix=reveal.js --post serve