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An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers

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Re: An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers

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Link to notebook on IPython Notebook Viewer: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rhiever/Data-Analysis-and...

serious question - now that github natively supports ipython is there any reason to link to nbviewer ?

The GitHub rendering engine for Ipython notebooks does not support mobile devices (oddly) and it does not support custom CSS/plugins, although this notebook does not utilize any of the latter.

Re: An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

serious question - now that github natively supports ipython is there any reason to link to nbviewer ?

The GitHub rendering engine for Ipython notebooks does not support mobile devices (oddly) and it does not support custom CSS/plugins, although this notebook does not utilize any of the latter.

good to know - thank you!

Re: An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers

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Link to notebook on IPython Notebook Viewer: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rhiever/Data-Analysis-and...

serious question - now that github natively supports ipython is there any reason to link to nbviewer ?

The native GitHub IPython Notebook viewer also doesn't support within-notebook linking, which can be fairly annoying when you spend an hour putting together a nice table of contents system.

Re: An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

serious question - now that github natively supports ipython is there any reason to link to nbviewer ?

The native GitHub IPython Notebook viewer also doesn't support within-notebook linking, which can be fairly annoying when you spend an hour putting together a nice table of contents system.

Automated table of contents really should be built into Jupyter, given how often it is used in practice. Although there is an nbextension [1].

[1] https://github.com/minrk/ipython_extensions

Re: An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers

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Link to notebook on IPython Notebook Viewer: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rhiever/Data-Analysis-and...

serious question - now that github natively supports ipython is there any reason to link to nbviewer ?

It loaded in about 1/10th the time for me

Re: An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers

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This is great! I have been using iPython notebook (as a biologist) for some months now and "getting a feel for the data" is very important. This notebook is littered with handy Python one liners to quickly gain insight into the data.

I love iPython notebook, I can run the entire back-end on our cluster while working with terabytes of data on my laptop tethered to my phone from a moving train (as we speak ;)).

Edit: Now using your code directly on my own data, I'm learning a lot, a big thanks to Randal S. Olson!!

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