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Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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minimaxir wrote: post #12
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.

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Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by asimuvPR »

bpchaps wrote: post #20
asimuvPR wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

Heh, weird how you have to use another engine to improve results. D:

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by tptacek »

thom wrote: post #17

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. :(

"Jupyter is the extraction of the language-agnostic stuff from IPython; IPython is a really important web-based scientific computing environment."

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by kasbah »

thom wrote: post #17

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. :(

> The IPython Notebook is now known as the Jupyter Notebook. It is an interactive computational environment, in which you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots and rich media.

The best place to start is probably https://try.jupyter.org/

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by makecheck »

JesseAldridge wrote: post #2

I had my first experience with Jupyter last weekend when I was trying to learn about document clustering with Python. It seems like a cool idea, but in practice ended up being kind of annoying: https://github.com/brandomr/document_cluster/issues/7

It works really well in a class scenario. A professor can just show a notebook on the screen “live”: walk through it, or even change things and demonstrate the effects. And when finished, the whole thing can be posted as a file for students to download and try themselves.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by CuriouslyC »

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…

You never test drive libraries or pieces of code in a REPL before you integrate it into your application/codebase?

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by nxzero »

thom wrote: post #17

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. :(

I explain notebooks as just how-to's with embedded coded/graphics/data that are editable in realtime; possible that's just as vague, but notebook sounds like a plaintext editor to me; term comes from logs, kept in notebooks, used in science labs to note/reproduce prior work.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by alyandon »

thom wrote: post #17

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. :(

It's really annoying to get caught in a blog.domain.com subdomain without any obvious links back to the main domain.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by a3n »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #26
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…

You never test drive libraries or pieces of code in a REPL before you integrate it into your application/codebase?

This is what I've been using it for lately.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by stonemetal »

thom wrote: post #17

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. :(

Their landing page of their site isn't too bad the first thing you see is The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, machine learning and much more.

Though I am not sure why their blog doesn't link to the landing page of the site.

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