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Re: Azure Jupyter Notebooks

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Post by gaius »

matt4077 wrote: post #3

The concept of Jupyer Notebooks is absolute fantastic. The product, unfortunately, fails at the basics of being a text editor. I'd wish the VSCode team could somehow integrate the concept. They seem to be excellent at execution. (Or, if they finish their work on "html zones" (block decorators in atom), I'll start doing it myself)

Right, this notebook or worksheet style interface isn't meant to be a text editor tho', or to develop software it's meant to interactively help you write a paper or a report. We had this in MathCAD in the '90s, where it used MS Word as it's "editor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcad

Re: Azure Jupyter Notebooks

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Post by JayOtter »

anc84 wrote: post #26
JayOtter wrote: post #21

Or, if you prefer your interactive notebooks not to rely on a backend service: http://www.joelotter.com/kajero/

That only works with JavaScript though or am I overlooking something?

Currently, yeah, just JS. It's aimed more at non-technical folks - the "clever graphing" stuff should work without writing much code, if any.

Re: Azure Jupyter Notebooks

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Post by Pigo »

arethuza wrote: post #27
nickcw wrote: post #23

I've been experimenting with Jupyter notebooks recently so I thought I'd try uploading one I made which solves a wooden puzzle. It seemed to work just fine! https://notebooks.azure.com/library/puzzles I had to host the images in the notebook elsewhere rather than upload them with the notebook. It looks like that is possible but then I'd have to grapple with Azure blobs...

Working with Azure Storage Blobs is pretty straightforward - you can use the cross platform azure CLI application or use the Azure Storage Explorer application (which appears to be cross-platform as well in its latest form): http://storageexplorer.com/

I've been using the linux version for a couple months now, and it's a truck ton better than exploring through VS. I'm still waiting for it to support tabs, or any other multi-tasking interface. That's sort of a pain.

Re: Azure Jupyter Notebooks

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Post by pYQAJ6Zm »

matt4077 wrote: post #3

The concept of Jupyer Notebooks is absolute fantastic. The product, unfortunately, fails at the basics of being a text editor. I'd wish the VSCode team could somehow integrate the concept. They seem to be excellent at execution. (Or, if they finish their work on "html zones" (block decorators in atom), I'll start doing it myself)

I suggest having a look at the jupyter-vim-binding¹ extension. It improves the experience for those comfortable with Vim.

¹ https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding

Re: Azure Jupyter Notebooks

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Post by Pigo »

Senderman wrote: post #20
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #8

Yet another product where I haven't got a clue what it is after reading the front page.

I had the same problem; This cleared it up: http://jupyter.org

I actually thought this was some kind of laptop for awhile, even after reading much of the front page. I googled Jupyter Notebook after a few context clues finally tipped me off. I just thought I was being dense, though.

Re: Azure Jupyter Notebooks

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Post by madenine »

rjbwork wrote: post #2

Very interesting. I just put some R code into production on Azure via MS R Server (DeployR), and it was not a particularly fun experience. I really want to see them do a hosted R service where we can just take these Jupyter Notebooks and expose it as a web service on a PAYG basis.

Depending on what you're doing - deploy a webservice with Azure ML?

Re: Azure Jupyter Notebooks

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Post by baldfat »

matt4077 wrote: post #3

The concept of Jupyer Notebooks is absolute fantastic. The product, unfortunately, fails at the basics of being a text editor. I'd wish the VSCode team could somehow integrate the concept. They seem to be excellent at execution. (Or, if they finish their work on "html zones" (block decorators in atom), I'll start doing it myself)

I absolutely LOVE Jupyter but I personally have found something better. I also love that Microsoft is behind making this happen with Jupyter.

RStudio's new feature to R is Notebooks and it is available in RStudio version 1.0+. It takes what is great about Jupyter Notebooks and adds easier version control and much easier to batch process your reports. Which are both huge wins for me.

http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/r_notebooks.html

Blog Post: https://blog.rstudio.org/2016/10/05/r-notebooks/

"Interactive R Markdown

As an authoring format, R Markdown bears many similarities to traditional notebooks like Jupyter and Beaker. However, code in notebooks is typically executed interactively, one cell at a time, whereas code in R Markdown documents is typically executed in batch.

R Notebooks bring the interactive model of execution to your R Markdown documents, giving you the capability to work quickly and iteratively in a notebook interface without leaving behind the plain-text tools and production-quality output you’ve come to rely on from R Markdown."

Re: Azure Jupyter Notebooks

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Post by AdamSC1 »

I am a huge fan of Jupyter notebooks, the idea of being able to run my code easily alongside natural prose is crucial when telling the story of data.

But, Jupyter faces most of it's challenges in the word-editor part of their product rather than in the code part.

I'd love to see a partnership between them and the Eve programming language (http://witheve.com/) who have absolutely mastered the IDE interface in early renditions of their product.

I know a lot of people are against the concept of Eve from a purist perspective of code not needing to be humanized. But, one of the common goals in data is to communicate insights and solutions through visually crafted and accessible stories. I think there is still a long way we can come in that.

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