Generating reports with Jinja, LaTeX and Docker
Sharing information is a key aspect in most human activities and where reports play a role. Reports serve various purposes such as tracking our children's development at school, seeing our credit card expenses, evaluating statistics after training a machine learning model and the list goes on.
In certain situations, there is a need to generate many reports that look similar which can be a tedious task if performed manually. In this blog post I will show how to generate reports programmatically using a Python template engine called Jinja, a high-quality document preparation system called Latex and a platform called Docker used to create applications in loosely isolated environments.