Eric D. Schabell: Edinburgh Tech Meetup - Getting Started with Perses Workshop

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Edinburgh Tech Meetup - Getting Started with Perses Workshop

On 7 February 2023 I've been invited to speak at this years inaugural Edinburgh Tech Meetup

This is a monthly TechMeetup that they say is an "...excuse for developers and the tech community around Scotland to meet up and learn new stuff from each other. No name badges, no sales pitches, just informative presentations from your peers and a chance to meet some of the tech community around you. We're not centered around specific languages, technologies or disciplines; we believe there's stuff to learn from mixing everyone together."

With that in mind, I was looking to share a brand new workshop I've been rolling out, so this is my opportunity to get some first and feedback from a group of technical enthusiasts. 

My session shares a new workshop around an open source project attempting to find a metrics dashboard and visualization 

Getting started with Perses

There's a new kid on the block in the world of open source standards for dashboards and visualization of your data. This session explores a free online workshop that gets you started hands-on learning about the Perses project and the best part is that attendees work through it at their own pace at home after the session. The following outline explores what you will learn from this workshop:

  • Introduction to Perses, what it s, where it comes from, it's goals and dreams
  • Installing Perses on your own machine, either in a container or from the source project
  • Exploring the Perses API and tooling
  • Exploring Perses dashboards, learning the data model so you can start building your own
  • Building your first dashboard
  • Advanced dashboards, adding more and more to your first dashboard

This session will share some of the above details, showing attendees where to find the workshop, help with understanding its layout, and if time permits, completing one or two labs live on stage together. Join me for 30 minutes of open source dashboarding power and discover the future of data visualization in getting started with Perses.

Looking forward to visiting this new meetup and sharing my newest workshop with its over 1100 members.