Building your first Streamlit app for non-python users

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What is Streamlit?

In March 2022 Snowflake acquired Streamlit to allow customers to build data-driven applications as they noticed their customers and employees had started to use it on top of data in Snowflake. The price? $800 million.

Streamlit is an open-source Python library used for creating web applications in a fast and simple way. It allows data scientists and machine learning engineers to create interactive data applications quickly without requiring expertise in web development.

Streamlit provides an intuitive API for creating interactive web applications with custom UI components such as sliders, dropdowns, and text inputs. It also enables users to easily integrate data visualizations, plots, and charts into their applications.

The library is designed to work seamlessly with popular data science and machine learning libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn. Streamlit makes it easy to prototype and share data-driven applications and…