Jupyter Notebooks¶

What is it?¶

seamless way to write and iterate python code to perform data analysis
Notebooks allows code, figures, diagrams, charts, and explanations to all be stored in one location
This allows developer's work to be shared, leading to collaboration and improving reproducibility
Additionally, Jupyter Notebooks is free of charge, improving equity in data analysis and software development
When new notebooks are created prebuilt docker containers are used to put the notebooks at their own path

The basis for Jupyter Notebooks is IPython, a command line shell for writing code in the terminal
Juputer Notebooks allows this code to be written and iterated in the browser through the use of the ipykernel
lines of code can be run all at once or one at a time
Jupyter Notebooks supports mulitple languages, most common is python
Allows storage of code and inclusion of Markdown files for notes and documentation
when new notebooks are created prebuilt docker containers are used to place the notebooks on their own paths

the kernel is specific to the programming language, this project will be in python
process that supports the notebook to execute the written code
Juptyer team maintains the ipykernel, but other user maintained kernels are available for use