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Post by carreau »

adricnet wrote: post #89
mistermann wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone new to not just Jupyter (and for someone coming from the Microsoft c# world, mind = blown, many kudos)....do you (or anyone else reading) happen to know off the top of your head a particularly well done, information dense (not dumbed down, showing what you can do, but skipping a hand holding explanation, one can go get that elsewhere) notebook that demonstrates a broad range of Pandas & Jupyter capabilitie…

The Nature article and notebooks from a few years back are still pretty good for demos, though everything has updated since then , especially iPython -> Jupyter. https://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-th... hth adric

s/iPython/IPython/g otherwise it looks like an Apple product :-)

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Post by bigger_cheese »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #204

I am going to ask a very dumb question, but if I am not an exploratory data scientist, what and how do i use jupyter/ipython for? I keep meaning to try it out but never quite got round to anything but toy stuff. how does it fit into a developer workflow, or do i need a different mindset? what should I try to do with this beta to get my mind right is probably the best question

My work recently paid for me to do an R training course - the consultant who delivered the training (via skype) used a Juypter notebook to deliver the entire course.

Imagine a power point presentation but with code samples which can execute inside the slide without ever leaving the presentation.

I thought it was pretty nifty. I don't know how many programming languages it supports but seems like a good training tool. When I was at university (back in 2003) the lecturer would constantly switch from their powerpoint slides to Emacs in order to demonstrate code this seemed like a more streamlined version of that.

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Post by qacek »

Quenty wrote: post #30

If you like Juypter, Google colabs has a google-docs style juypter notebook that’s quite good. It’s nice for collaboration. https://colab.research.google.com/notebook

Are there any plans for the JupyterLab and colab to unfork? Parts of colab seems nice but this feels like a google product that could get pulled at any moment

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Post by jiggunjer »

What put me off Jupyter is that it can't do dynamic text. I can't link to a variable in the code, such that the text updates when I run the code again with new parameters. This would be a great feature for demos/presentations.

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Post by fwilliams »

goerz wrote: post #168
f137 wrote: post #163

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For last 20 years at the least, and the gap widens if anything

Sure, Mathematica has had a long head start. I don't see the gap widening at all, though. For me, e.g. SymPy (and more specialized algebra systems for e.g. quantum mechanics I've built on top of it) now match and sometimes surpass what I could do with Mathematica. More importantly though, Mathematica's closed nature makes it quite hard to integrate with other systems and workflows (as others have pointed out in this…

Sympy is great (especially the ability to automatically codegen numerical expressions from symbolic ones), but I've found it to be orders of magnitude slower than Mathematica for some relatively simple problems. I also find the sympy documentation to be somewhat sparse and hard to navigate.

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Post by mindB »

optimali wrote: post #64
cup-of-tea wrote: post #23

So I can now use a decent text editor (emacs) to edit Jupyer notebooks? Great! I do wish it was possible to interleave languages like with org-mode, though. I've yet to find a literate programming/notebook format I'm truly happy with. Edit: oh.. I misread. It doesn't support using external editors. All I want is some way to edit those text boxes with another program. I can't do any serious work in a web browser. It's…

This is great for working with python - https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython I haven't had as much luck using it for other languages, but I also haven't put in much effort into trying.

Thank you! I've been looking for this and didn't even realize. ob-julia is awful; really hope this can be made to work better. Also several obscure languages I've wanted to include snippets of in org that actually have Jupyter kernels...

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Post by matsur »

jiggunjer wrote: post #215

What put me off Jupyter is that it can't do dynamic text. I can't link to a variable in the code, such that the text updates when I run the code again with new parameters. This would be a great feature for demos/presentations.

Doing something with %%javascript would seem to get you most of the way there.

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Post by dragonwriter »

jiggunjer wrote: post #215

What put me off Jupyter is that it can't do dynamic text. I can't link to a variable in the code, such that the text updates when I run the code again with new parameters. This would be a great feature for demos/presentations.

> What put me off Jupyter is that it can't do dynamic text. I can't link to a variable in the code, such that the text updates when I run the code again with new parameters.

You can either output text (including HTML/Markdown) from a code cell, or (at least for python, don't know of similar for other languages) use the Python Markdown notebook extension to do this.

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Post by wenc »

ChrisRackauckas wrote: post #93
mschuetz wrote: post #19

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Last time I've tried Jupyter, about a year or two ago, the user experience wasn't even close to that of Mathematica. I guess I'll give it another chance, but can you tell me in what way Mathematicas notebook interface is outclassed, in your opinion? The only major beef I have with Mathematica are its default stylesheets. They suck, every single one of them. There is no good distinction between input and output fields…

I agree here. Being able to write code in the mathematical rendering is such a beautiful feature of Mathematica that Jupyter is missing. I am not sure how it's outclassed as a notebook because of this. As an IDE? Sure, Mathematica's notebook isn't a good IDE at all. But as a notebook for writing mathematical statements, it's fantastic. It's the one thing I need in order to go to an only Julia workflow.

> Being able to write code in the mathematical rendering

I wonder, what do you mean by this? You mean it's possible to write code in the Out[] cells in Mathematica? (is that possible?)

Or do you mean writing math in the notebook?

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