Jupyter LEARN Portal

Challenge

Innovation leads in the National Security Agency mission space sought to advance the use of Jupyter Notebooks for data analysis across the agency and Intelligence Community (IC). Sponsors reached out to Learning Tradecraft Services in the National Cryptologic University (NC-U) to see if they could help expand the community and open training across the IC.

My Role

As Senior Instructional Designer involved in a research across the NSA mission regarding online training communities, I was tasked to work with stakeholders and apply research findings to enable and advance Jupyter training.

Action(s)

I applied knowledge community research findings and prior knowledge of WordPress/PHP coding to design and develop a web-based training portal (in WordPress) to build community and showcase training driven by mission sponsors. The portal offered people entry points at three different levels to provide a training pathway for those seeking an Introduction, Support, or Expert use cases with Jupyter notebooks. It included training descriptions and links, dynamically updated calendars, and event/conference registrations and information. I worked with colleagues in IT to ensure the developed portal was accessible by internal NSA and cross-IC networks (a complex undertaking in a secure environment).

Result(s)

The Jupyter LEARN Portal grew to over 1200 active users in just one week of launch, from within the agency and across the IC. It provided data on users and resource use and drove adoption of notebooks across all missions. Jupyter LEARN laid groundwork for public-facing portals and advanced usage of Jupyter notebooks by 40% in its first year.