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Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by minimaxir »

jypepin wrote: post #6

One of our data analyst had fun drawing all the shots from Kobe during his whole career. He did everything on jupyter, which I discovered at that moment, and was mind blown on how well it worked and how powerful it is. I don't think I would ever use this tool as a seasoned software engineer, but I can definitely see the power it has for newer people who want to learn, or simply people like him who know a little bit o…

Your comment implies that using a Jupyter notebook is a programming crutch for those who are not skilled. That's far from the case; Jupyter notebooks allow for logical separation of code and output, which is important for comprehension.

It also allows for reproducibility of results, which is arguably even more important, especially in the data science case.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by delluminatus »

aabaker99 wrote: post #9
jypepin wrote: post #6

One of our data analyst had fun drawing all the shots from Kobe during his whole career. He did everything on jupyter, which I discovered at that moment, and was mind blown on how well it worked and how powerful it is. I don't think I would ever use this tool as a seasoned software engineer, but I can definitely see the power it has for newer people who want to learn, or simply people like him who know a little bit o…

can you comment on why you wouldn't use it? I am somewhere in the middle of software engineering and (biological) data science. I have seen some jupyter notebooks as companions to genomics software and I enjoyed those presentations. I was considering using it in the future based on that; so, I wanted to hear your thoughts.

As another "software engineer", I can say that we simply don't ever need a tool like Jupyter for our jobs. It's excellent for exploratory programming, research, and publishing -- but it's not really meant for software development.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by bpchaps »

benatkin wrote: post #8

There's also a newer alternative called Zeppelin: https://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org Comparison: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comprehensive-comparison-jupy...

Thanks for the links! I've been having a lot of frustrations with jupyter and since it's almost impossible to find anything technical on google these days, I haven't been able to find any good alternatives.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by jamesdutc »

For some background on the direction of the Jupyter project, check out this recent talk at PyData Amsterdam (http://pydata.org/amsterdam2016) by Min Ragan-Kelley & Thomas Kluyver.

They talk about how Jupyter has "evolved from a Python-specific tool to a general data science tool that supports many different languages."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T385txAYSt8

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by thom »

Probably the longest time-to-knowing-what-the-hell-this-thing-actually-is I've ever seen on HN. Clicked on the link, clicked on a Github link, clicked to the Github root, clicked on the link to the project's site, clicked on the first item in the table of contents, got a vague idea what it was.

I feel grumpy and old. :(

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by asimuvPR »

bpchaps wrote: post #15
benatkin wrote: post #8

There's also a newer alternative called Zeppelin: https://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org Comparison: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comprehensive-comparison-jupy...

Thanks for the links! I've been having a lot of frustrations with jupyter and since it's almost impossible to find anything technical on google these days, I haven't been able to find any good alternatives.

I've found that searching through duckduckgo with the !g command improves results. Try it out. :)

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by bpchaps »

asimuvPR wrote: post #18
bpchaps wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the links! I've been having a lot of frustrations with jupyter and since it's almost impossible to find anything technical on google these days, I haven't been able to find any good alternatives.

I've found that searching through duckduckgo with the !g command improves results. Try it out. :)

That's exactly what I do, actually. :p
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