Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format

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Post by ptwobrussell » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:36 PM UTC

Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format
miningthesocialweb.com

Re: Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format

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Post by jyeee » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:39 PM UTC

$1.15M (plus my opinion) says that IPython is the bee's knees: http://ipython.org/sloan-grant.html

Re: Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format

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Post by ptwobrussell » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:39 PM UTC

I think it's your opinion that is really the deciding factor there ;)

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Post by jyeee » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:45 PM UTC

ptwobrussell wrote: post #3

I think it's your opinion that is really the deciding factor there ;)

lol, don't just take my word for it: http://blog.fperez.org/2012/09/blogging-with-ipython-noteboo...

Re: Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format

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Post by mcburton » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:57 PM UTC

YES!

I would also love to see a publishing workflow that could render IPython Notebooks for print on dead trees.

Re: Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format

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Post by ptwobrussell » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:59 PM UTC

mcburton wrote: post #5

YES! I would also love to see a publishing workflow that could render IPython Notebooks for print on dead trees.

The 1.0.0 version started bundling nbconvert, which does a pretty good job of exporting to html, pdf, latex, etc. Have you tried it out yet?

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Post by ptwobrussell » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

mcburton wrote: post #5

YES! I would also love to see a publishing workflow that could render IPython Notebooks for print on dead trees.

Sorry, forgot the link. It's what I used to export the interactive ipynb file to html for preview on GitHub, for example: https://rawgithub.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd...

Re: Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format

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Post by mcburton » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 3:42 PM UTC

ptwobrussell wrote: post #6

mcburton wrote: post #5

YES! I would also love to see a publishing workflow that could render IPython Notebooks for print on dead trees.

The 1.0.0 version started bundling nbconvert, which does a pretty good job of exporting to html, pdf, latex, etc. Have you tried it out yet?

I haven't started meaningfully playing with nbconvert yet, but I think one of the really promising features are the nbconvert templates[1]. From what I gather you can make custom templates with jinja and invoke them on the command line. It would be interesting to create a docbook, msword, specifically formatted pdf templates which would allow IPython Notebooks to flow into existing print publication workflows (if I recall O'Reilly uses docbook, yes?). I haven't been able to find documentation about the nbconvert templates so I'm dragging this out of memory from an email or a tweet I saw once upon a time.

One thing I'm hoping to figure out is a way to transform IPython Notebooks into PDFs that satisfy my university's dissertation formatting guidelines (one inch margins, 12pt times, etc).

[1] https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/IPython/nbcon...

Re: Now Serving: Full-Text Sampler in IPython Notebook Format

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Post by ptwobrussell » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

mcburton wrote: post #8

ptwobrussell wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 1.0.0 version started bundling nbconvert, which does a pretty good job of exporting to html, pdf, latex, etc. Have you tried it out yet?

I haven't started meaningfully playing with nbconvert yet, but I think one of the really promising features are the nbconvert templates[1]. From what I gather you can make custom templates with jinja and invoke them on the command line. It would be interesting to create a docbook, msword, specifically formatted pdf templates which would allow IPython Notebooks to flow into existing print publication workflows (if I r…

Wow, you definitely have some great ideas here, and given the enthusiasm about ipynb, I would not be surprised to see these things happen in the next 6-12 months.

O'Reilly does use docbook internally as part of the toolchain, but asciidoc is coming into style as well. I've done most of my work in docbook with a docbook editor, but did some of my latest boook in asciidoc, which was much easier. Just use a standard text editor of choice (like Vim) and get right to it. Much easier for me, anyway.

One thing I'd really like to see is ipynb supporting asciidoc instead of or in addition to markdown. You can go to/from asciidoc and docbook in a lossless way, IIRC.

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Post by badhairday » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 3:53 PM UTC

I purchased Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2013) a few weeks ago and have been loving the IPython Notebook setup they're using to distribute the code examples. Anyone can clone the following git repo and play around with the code:

https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Ed...