RISE Slideshow

RISE Slideshow#

Of a Jupyter Notebook#

Author: Monika Doerig

Date: 13 June 2024

Citation and Resources:#

Press Space to proceed.

In code cells you press Shift-Enter (as usual) to evaluate your code and directly move to the next cell if it is already displayed. Press Ctrl-Enter to run a command without direclty moving to the next cell.

Introduction to RISE#

RISE is Jupyter notebook slideshow extension that allows you to turn a Jupyter notebook into a live presentation based on reveal.js. The full documentation can be found here.

Keep pressing Space to proceed along the main line.

1. How to create slideshows#

Open or create a new Notebook (File > New > Notebook) in JupyterLab. Navigate to the View option in the menu and select Property Inspector (Ctrl+Shift+U). Alternatively, directly click on the gears icon to access cell and notebook metadata (on the left or right sidebar):

You should be able to scroll down if the entire image is not displayed.

../images/property_inspector.png

To prepare a slideshow, select a Slide Type for each cell from the dropdown menu. It can be chosen between the following types:

You should be able to scroll down

  • Slide: This cell is the beginning of a new slide. These slides run from left to right.

  • Subslide: This cell is the beginning of a new sub-slide, which is a new slide, but is displayed below the previous one and runs form top to bottom (instead of left to right):

  • Fragment: A cell marked as fragment will split the contents of one slide into pieces; a break is created inside the slide and will not show up until Space is pressed one more time to see it.

  • Skip: This cell is ignored altogether in reveal mode, it will not appear either in the main view, nor in the speaker view.

  • Notes: This cell is marked to be discarded from the main view, but is meant to appear in the speaker view.

../images/metadata.png

2. Running slideshows in JupyterLab on Neurodesk#

  • Start the slideshow by pressing the button Render the current notebook as Reveal Slideshow or by pressing Alt+R.

../images/render.png

Selection and evaluation#

To evaluate code, press Shift-Enter (as usual) to run it. This will move to the next cell if it is already displayed.

%%capture
!pip install numpy

# This is where you press Shift-Enter
import numpy as np

a = np.arange(6)
a.shape

(6,)

# Press Ctrl-Enter to also see this output
a2 = a[np.newaxis, :]
a2.shape

(1, 6)

Other notes#

  • Markdown Images get left aligned by default. Enclose the image like <center><img src='image.png'></center> to center it.

  • Speaker notes: By selecting the Slide Type called Notes the content of this cell will be shown in the speaker view (a separate browser window). This view also provieds a timer and a preview of the next upcoming slide. Press the t key to open a second window, with a presenter view, showing Notes cell which won’t show up in the main slides (however, the presentation will start from the beginning).

This is an example of a Notes cell.

3. Customize RISE#

RISE can be customized in many ways - here some pointers on what can be customized:

  • presentation theme

  • transition between slides

  • auto-launch presentation mode

  • where to start the presentation

  • automatic selection of cells

  • slide sizes

  • decoration (header/footer/background)

  • vertical scrollbar

  • chalkboard capabilities

  • using a leap motion controller

  • native reveal.js settings

  • custom CSS

  • keyboard shortcuts

Settings Editor#

RISE settings for all notebooks can be changed via the Settings Editor.

For example, to set up the notebook so that it starts immediately with the slideshow view, the configuration option autorun must be set to true. This is typically very helpful if a binder-hosted notebook is to be started in slideshow mode.

../images/settings_editor.png

Notebook metadata#

Alternatively, these settings can also be saved/changed in the notebook metadata of the respective notebook, which contains a JSON object, that can be edited in the Property Inspector > ADVANCED TOOLS > Notebook metadata:

As an example, to autolunch the slideshow upon opening, the notebook metadata can be edited as follows:

    ...
    "rise": {"autolaunch": true}
    ...

To start the slideshow at the beginning and not at the selected slide, the following configuration change can be made:

    ...
 "rise": {"start_slideshow_at": "beginning"}
    ...

To save the configuration changes:

  1. Edit the metadata

  2. Save the changes by clicking the little tick icon that appears above the notebook metadata window.

../images/change_metadata_notebook.png

Dependencies in Jupyter/Python#

  • Using the package watermark to document system environment and software versions used in this notebook

%load_ext watermark

%watermark
%watermark --iversions

Last updated: 2025-12-05T08:16:15.053279+00:00

Python implementation: CPython
Python version       : 3.13.9
IPython version      : 9.7.0

Compiler    : GCC 14.3.0
OS          : Linux
Release     : 5.15.0-151-generic
Machine     : x86_64
Processor   : x86_64
CPU cores   : 32
Architecture: 64bit

numpy: 2.3.5
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