Qgrid is an IPython widget which uses SlickGrid to render pandas DataFrames within a Jupyter notebook. We originally developed it for use in Quantopian's hosted research environment, but no longer have a specific project in mind for using qgrid in the research environment. For that reason we haven't been investing much time in developing new features, and almost all of the forward development has come from the community. We've mainly just been reviewing PR's, writing docs, and occasionally making small contributions.

SlickGrid

An interactive javascript grid which allows users to scroll, sort, and filter hundreds of thousands of rows with extreme responsiveness.

Pandas

A powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, and DataFrames are the primary way of storing and manipulating two-dimensional data in pandas.

Qgrid renders pandas DataFrames as SlickGrids, which enables users to explore the entire contents of a DataFrame using intuitive sorting and filtering controls. It's designed to be used within Jupyter notebook, but it's also fully functional when rendered in nbviewer.

See the demo by viewing qgrid_demo.ipynb in nbviewer.

Dependencies:

Qgrid runs on Python 2 or 3. You'll also need pip for the installation steps below.

Qgrid depends on the following two Python packages:

Jupyter notebook

This is the interactive Python environment in which qgrid runs.

Pandas

A powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python. Qgrid requires that the data to be rendered as an interactive grid be provided in the form of a pandas DataFrame.

These are listed in requirements.txt and as such, will be automatically installed (if necessary) when qgrid is installed via pip.

Installing from PyPI:

Qgrid is on PyPI and can be installed like this:

pip install qgrid

If you need to install a specific version of qgrid, pip allows you to specify it like this:

pip install qgrid==0.2.0

See the Releases page for more details about the versions that are available.

Installing from GitHub:

The latest release on PyPI is often out of date, and might not contain the latest bug fixes and features that you want. To run the latest code that is on master, install qgrid from GitHub instead of PyPI:

pip install git+https://github.com/quantopian/qgrid

1. Go to the top-level directory of the qgrid repository and run the notebook:

   cd ~/qgrid
   jupyter notebook
   

   The advantage of running the notebook from the top-level directoy of the qgrid repository is the sample notebook that comes with qgrid will be available on the first page that appears when the web browser launches. Here's what you can expect that page to look like:

   

   The "notebook dashboard" for the jupyter notebook which shows all the files in the current directory. Notice the demo notebook which is qgrid_demo.ipynb.

2. Click on qgrid_demo.ipynb to open it. Here's what that will should like:

   

   The demo notebook, qgrid_demo.ipynb, rendered by a locally-running Jupyter notebook.

3. Skip to the Notebook Installation section of the notebook because the Overview is copied from this document. Read the text and execute the cells as you come to them to complete the demo.

If you'd like to contribute to qgrid, or just want to be able to modify the source code for your own purposes, you'll want to clone this repository and run qgrid from your local copy of the repository. The following steps explain how to do this.

1. Clone the repository from GitHub and cd into it the top-level directory:

   git clone https://github.com/quantopian/qgrid.git
   cd qgrid
   

2. Install the current project in editable mode:

   pip install -e .
   

   This will install the packages that qgrid depends on in the normal way, but will do something special for the qgrid package itself. Instead of copying the qgrid directory to the site-packages directory of the environment where it was installed (like a virualenv), pip will create a symbolic link which links to the directory you passed in to the pip install -e. The result is changes that you make to the source code will be reflected as soon as you restart the notebook.

   If you have virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper installed, an easy way to verify that this "editable" install succeeded is to do the following:

   cdsitepackages # navigate to the directory where virtualenv installs packages
   cat qgrid.egg-link # print out the contents of this symbolic link
   

   You should find that the symbolic link points to the top level directory of the qgrid repository which you ran the pip install -e command on.

3. Follow the instructions in the previous section to run qgrid. Now when you make changes to qgrid's Python code, those changes will take effect as soon as you restart the Jupyter notebook server.

4. If the code you need to change is in qgrid's javascript, then call the nb_install function from within the notebook to copy your latest changes to the "nbextensions" folder (i.e. where widgets must put their javascript for it to be found by the notebook).

Using virtualenv is the recommended way of keeping Python dependencies for various project isolated. The following step help you set up a virtualenv for qgrid (which I'm sure most of you know how to do already).

Before you proceed with this section you'll need virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper. Install them like this:

pip install virtualenv
pip install virtualenvwrapper

1. Create a virtualenv for Jupyter notebook and qgrid:

   mkvirtualenv qgrid # create virtualenv called qgrid, and use Python 2 inside that virtualenv
   

   This will work but on my machine the resulting virtualenv will use whatever version of python comes up when you run python --version, which in my case is Python 2. If you want to use Python 3, specify the path to the version of Python you want to use, which for me looks like this:

   mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python3 qgrid # create virtualenv called qgrid, and use Python 3 inside that virtualenv
   

   You may have to change the /usr/local/bin/python3 path depending on how you installed Python 3. If you're unsure, type which python3 to get the path to your Python 3 installation.

2. Install qgrid:

   pip install qgrid # see the "Installation" section above for more options