David R. Pugh

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Is there any interest in adding a [Binder button](https://mybinder.org/) so that learners can launch a [JupyterLab](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) instance and get access to a terminal running bash shell in the cloud? JupyterLab...

help wanted
type:template and tools
type:enhancement

For the version of the Plotting and Programming in Python that I teach to the KAUST community, I need to introduce Conda as a tool for managing Python environments. We...

Is there documentation on how to adapt the styling (particularly the logos) for our home institution?

The following API call is throwing a `JSONDecodeError`. ```python data = pybea.get_data(USER_ID, DataSetName='GDPbyIndustry', Year='2010', Industry=11, TableID='ALL', Frequency=['A', 'Q'], ) ``` Here is the traceback... ```python --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JSONDecodeError Traceback (most recent...

All other JSON output returned by the BEA API includes "DATA" as a key of the "RESULTS" JSON object. Here that doesn't seem to be the case. ```json {"BEAAPI":{"Request":{"RequestParam":[{"ParameterName":"YEAR","ParameterValue":"ALL"},{"ParameterName":"FREQUENCY","ParameterValue":"A"},{"ParameterName":"COMPONENT","ParameterValue":"CHGPOSPRICE"},{"ParameterName":"DATASETNAME","ParameterValue":"IIP"},{"ParameterName":"RESULTFORMAT","ParameterValue":"JSON"},{"ParameterName":"METHOD","ParameterValue":"GETDATA"},{"ParameterName":"USERID","ParameterValue":"98A0A0A7-21DF-4B75-96DE-1410D47AB280"},{"ParameterName":"TYPEOFINVESTMENT","ParameterValue":"FINASSETSEXCLFINDERIV"}]},"Results":{"Dimensions":[{"Ordinal":"1","Name":"TypeOfInvestment","DataType":"string","IsValue":"0"},{"Ordinal":"2","Name":"Component","DataType":"string","IsValue":"0"},{"Ordinal":"4","Name":"Frequency","DataType":"string","IsValue":"0"},{"Ordinal":"5","Name":"Year","DataType":"string","IsValue":"0"},{"Ordinal":"6","Name":"TimeSeriesId","DataType":"string","IsValue":"0"},{"Ordinal":"7","Name":"TimeSeriesDescription","DataType":"string","IsValue":"0"},{"Ordinal":"8","Name":"TimePeriod","DataType":"string","IsValue":"0"},{"Ordinal":"9","Name":"CL_UNIT","DataType":"string","IsValue":"0"},{"Ordinal":"10","Name":"UNIT_MULT","DataType":"string","IsValue":"0"},{"Ordinal":"11","Name":"DataValue","DataType":"numeric","IsValue":"1"}]},"Data":[{"TypeOfInvestment":"FinAssetsExclFinDeriv","Component":"ChgPosPrice","Frequency":"A","Year":"2003","TimeSeriesId":"TSI_IipFinAssetsExclFinDerivChgPosPrice_A","TimeSeriesDescription":"U.S. assets...

...looks like BEA has been busy. Need to incorporate the [additional available data sets](http://www.bea.gov/API/signup/index.cfm).

Is there interest in adding [Binder ](https://mybinder.org) buttons to the README? I have already added a Binder button to the [Software Carpentry Python lesson](https://github.com/swcarpentry/python-novice-gapminder) and am [in the progress](https://github.com/swcarpentry/r-novice-gapminder/pull/532) of...

See here for details... https://github.com/matplotlib/jupyter-matplotlib

...not sure this is necessary!

...this would allow users to run tests when building the package on their own systems more easily. Relevant links are [here](http://python-packaging.readthedocs.org/en/latest/testing.html) and [here](http://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/commands.html)

enhancement