SHADES, the SHAD Exploration System, is a platform for Exploratory Data Analytics. SHADES is designed as a client-server architecture: the client interfaces with the end user via high productivity languages (e.g. Python) and GUI/Web applications (e.g. Jupyter Notebooks); the server runs an interpreter, which executes commands issued by the client on one or multiple machines, and maintains data in memory. The server commands are implemented with the SHAD library, taking advantage of its portability, performance and scalability features. The server can indeed run on any machine/runtime system supported by the SHAD library. and, as regular SHAD apps, the commands implementations exploit massive multithreading for performance. Currently, the communication between client and server occurs via TCP-IP messages.