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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 edraferi »

jypepin wrote: post #35
minimaxir wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Right, but what if you want to combine your test commands, their output, and comments? Share that with other people? Let them change things and re-run the examples in the same place? NOW you're cooking with notebooks.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by [deleted] »

ced wrote: post #37
e0m wrote: post #32

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.

Is Hydrogen a notebook replacement? The demo makes it look like a fancy REPL. Does it have section headers, latex support, etc.?

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Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by dandermotj »

anigbrowl wrote: post #33
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 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…

Just a heads up: Jupyter Notebook is not an open source alternative to Mathematica. Originally, Jupyter was iPython notebook, an IDE of sorts for data science and analysis in Python, by writing code and markdown together in a more coherent and integrated way. Then they incorporated a host of other popular open source languages for computational science such as R, Julia, F#, ect., so that we could use the best tools for their task, all in one document.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by jxy »

It's fun to play with code and try out new ideas in such a rich interactive environment. When you want to get the work done in production scenario, the shortcomings of unable to use version control and the overhead of interactive environment just kill it.

What works is that you get a subset of your data and try to develop some code to process it and generate a handful of graphs. You can then save the code in its true text form and edit with your favorite editor, and run it on your real data.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by CuriouslyC »

jypepin wrote: post #36
CuriouslyC wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

exactly. But I'm already in iTerm using vim, so I use the iTerm repl instead. Not saying jupyter wouldn't do a great job, just that seems more convenient to use what's in my environment instead :)

The nice thing about Jupyter notebooks is that rather than having a command history which can be unwieldy when tweaking functions, you have cells that are easy to go back and edit. Additionally, when you're done with your experiments you can tidy things up, stuff a few markdown comments in there and you have a nice tutorial for other developers.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by lumpypua »

jypepin wrote: post #35
minimaxir wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

How do you get graphs and images in your terminal?

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by KKKKkkkk1 »

enobrev wrote: post #40

"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." http://jupyter.org/

Thanks for explaining what Jupyter is. This is certainly useful since it's hard to find this information from the original link.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by nhaliday »

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...

Another competitor (with a strong focus on polyglot use): http://beakernotebook.com/.

Made by the people at https://www.twosigma.com/.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by eruditely »

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 something that allows you to embed code and text and execute said code and text, let me take a screenshot for you. Notice the latex integration in the second imgur link.

One is for R code and one is for asymptote graphs, which are amazing!

http://imgur.com/a/GdEAH

http://imgur.com/sEAl7zo

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by godzillabrennus »

dandermotj wrote: post #43
anigbrowl wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Just a heads up: Jupyter Notebook is not an open source alternative to Mathematica. Originally, Jupyter was iPython notebook, an IDE of sorts for data science and analysis in Python, by writing code and markdown together in a more coherent and integrated way. Then they incorporated a host of other popular open source languages for computational science such as R, Julia, F#, ect., so that we could use the best tools f…

Great summary of Jupyter Notebook!

I'll add that it's a great way to teach python to students. Notebooks can be shared and students basically retain all their legwork as they learn. It's very helpful for visually seeing code work if you are new.

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