Welcome to posit::conf(2025)

Shiny for Python

Welcome!

• Find a seat where you can see the screen!

• Update your local copy of the workshop: https://posit-conf-2025.github.io/shiny-py/setup.html

• Join the Discord: https://pos.it/conf

wifi(
  network="Posit Conf 2025",
  password="conf2025”
)

Computer Setup: https://posit-conf-2025.github.io/shiny-py/setup.html

Team

• Daniel Chen
• Liz Nelson (Shiny)
• Michael Chow (Open-Source)

Code of Conduct

Please Review: <posit.co/code-of-conduct>

• 💙 Treat everyone with respect
• 🧡 Everyone should feel welcome and safe

Reporting:

🗣️ any posit::conf staff member (t-shirt) or Info desk 📧 codeofconduct@posit.co

Meet each other

• 👋 Hi, my name is …

• 🐍 When it comes to Python, I’d call myself a… [newcomer, regular user, seasoned pro]

• 📊 The first (or most recent) time I made a visualization in Python, it was…

• 🌟 If I could build a Shiny app for anything (serious or silly), it would be…

• 💡 A tool or library I recently discovered that made me go “wow” is…

About posit::conf(2025)

WiFi

wifi(
  "Posit Conf 2025",
  password="conf2025"
)

posit::conf(2025) Things to Know

• 🚻 Gender-neutral bathroom: LL2 next to Chicago A

• 🧘 Meditation/prayer room: LL2 Chicago A

• 🤱 Lactation room: LL2 Chicago B

• 🎉 Welcome reception: Tonight 5-7 pm, LL2 Grand Hall West

• 🐠 Aquarium Night: Tomorrow 7-10 pm, Georgia Aquarium

posit::conf(2025) Social Media

• Red lanyards available to those who don’t wish to be photographed

• #PositConf2025 for all things conf

posit::conf(2025) Competition

Made with Shiny!

• Survey: <pos.it/funform2025>
• Dashboard: <pos.it/funstats>

About this workshop

🏡 posit-conf-2025.github.io/shiny-py

Discord

1. Go to <posit.co/conference>
2. Click Login
3. Find and click the discord banner
4. Join us in #workshop-shiny-py

Schedule

Time	Activity
	Welcome!
	Introduction to Shiny
	Your first application
	break
	Shiny’s reactivity programming model
	A more complex application
	Deploying your application to the web (for free!)
	break
	Anatomy of a conversation
	[Demo: 20 Questions][demo20q]
	Your first chat with an LLM
	AI Chat Interfaces
	break
	Shiny modules
	Testing your shiny apps with playwright
	Shiny Q+A
	End

Stickies

🟩

All good
I’m done

🟥

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Need time or help

Computering

Setup

1. Head to <posit-conf-2025.github.io/shiny-py/setup.html>

2. Clone our workshop repo posit-conf-2025/shiny-py

3. Open the project in Positron

4. Install all the packages:

   • Python: uv sync

We’re using Positron