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Building Your First Desktop Application using PySide6 [A Data Scientist Edition]
Surprise, surprise. It’s not as hard as I thought it would be.
The hardest part of my data scientist job is convincing the non-technical stakeholders to realize how yet another data science solution can help them make better decisions.
This is not new to me, though. It’s been like this in my 5+ years of experience as a data scientist and machine learning engineer.
After multiple trials and errors, what has worked for me in the order are:
- Share regular progress updates (presentation slides) by simplifying the technical concepts.
- Building a machine learning web application towards the end of the project to give stakeholders, the experience of interacting with the solution we’ve collaboratively built.
However, a twist was that my colleague on the same team for about 5 years, had built a desktop application (instead of a web application) for a different use case using .NET. The team’s loving it.
So I asked myself: why not build a desktop rather than a web application?
There was one problem though, not just that I don’t know .NET to begin with, but never have I built a desktop application before…
