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Jupyter Notebook User Experience Survey

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Re: Jupyter Notebook User Experience Survey

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It's a great piece of software. Starting with Ipython Notebook, but a little unwieldy sometimes. I really hope they keep improving. It seems like all the cool features were introduced early on and then over time there has been almost no progress in the areas I've been using it for. Some of my criticisms that I hope somone has a good workaround for for now: Issues I have with it that are not bugs: - Have to keep a sep…

> separate firefox profile...

Is it possible to run it in a tab-less chrome/ff instance through arguments? If not, this should be possible.

Re: Jupyter Notebook User Experience Survey

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So what is the usual usecase for these Jupyter notebooks? I see everyone praising them, but I still don't really know a good use case. I thought about using it as notebook for work stuff, but I don't want to run something in command line and then in browser to make a simple note when I can just open vim and make a quick note

Verification. If you compare traditional data analysis in Excel and such, it is much easier to verify what is going on in a notebook than it is in multitudes of Excel sheets. Easy calculation views, graphs, tables, etc.
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