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I find Jupyter great for the single-user use case, but I'm often frustrated with how it "breaks" with version control, when collaborating.
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'm glad I did in this case because an open-source equivalent of Mathematica is a pretty sweet tool, but the site navigation sucks enough that it's likely limiting your audience a bit.
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 know. Open source folks, when you put a 'Home' button in the corner, make it go to the project home page, not the blog home page. If there's one thing I can't stand it's a blog post about an update for something that I don't know what it is, and my patience to click around trying to find out whether it is something I would be interested in or not is very limited. I'm glad I did in this case because an open-source e…
And yes, the "home" button should go to the project home, not the blog home (or there should be a separate button for that).
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.
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?
If you use Atom, I would highly recommend looking at https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen It uses Jupyter under the hood to do some serious inline magic.
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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.
sorry, maybe my comment is wrong because of my lack of knowledge about the tool (I've seen it used 10 minutes) but it's seems like it's a nice UI replacing what a terminal does, if I'm right. So all I'm saying is, since i'm confortable using a terminal, and I'm usually already there using vim, etc., then it's more convenient for me to test stuff in my terminal than going into my browser to test in jupyter
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 am looking at you, http://matplotlib.org)