Streamlining Healthcare Analytics: Harnessing Streamlit for Advanced Data Insights

Shereese Maynard
4 min readNov 9, 2023

Hey HITters. So recently, I’ve been engaging in a little experimental playtime. One of my colleagues asked me to give my opinion on Streamlit, and I thought I’d share it publicly. Streamlit is an open-source app framework designed explicitly for Machine Learning and Data Science teams. It allows data scientists and engineers to quickly create web applications to showcase their work, share findings, or allow for interactive data exploration without extensive web development knowledge. Here’s how Streamlit can be instrumental in healthcare data analytics:

Now, we all know that healthcare data can be as intricate as a labyrinth and as vast as an ocean. Enter Streamlit, the trusty sidekick for anyone who’s ever felt daunted by rows of patient stats and figures. Imagine having a magic wand that brings this data to life through crisp, clear visuals and lets you tweak and toy with the numbers to your heart’s content. That’s what Streamlit is giving. In a 2022 post, Tanner Ingalls, Product Data Manager at Redx, opined: “ It’s One of the best tools/libraries in the Data Science Arsenal.

With Streamlit, it’s all about making things straightforward. Need to zoom in on a specific data set? Just a few clicks and voilà! Or maybe you want to see what happens if you adjust a few variables —…

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Shereese Maynard
Shereese Maynard

Written by Shereese Maynard

Digital Health Professional. "Health IT Strategist | @BeckersHealthcare Top Women to Know | Speaker & Consultant | Helping Healthcare Innovate & Succeed

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