Jupyter notebook

Jupyter Notebook is an interactive web application for creating and sharing documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text. It is supported by over 40 programming languages, including Python, R, Julia, Matlab, and Octave. Jupyter Notebook is used primarily for data science and research within the sciences, engineering, and business fields.

Jupyter Notebook was originally created in 2014 under the name IPython Notebook and was a spinoff from the interactive Python environment called IPython. The application was rebranded to Jupyter Notebook in 2015 to reflect its evolution to become language-agnostic and its support for languages other than Python.

Jupyter Notebook documents are composed of cells. Cells can contain code, text, mathematics, plots, and image data. The notebook also contains a web-browser-based GUI, which is a dashboard where users can access their notebooks, edit their notebook, set up languages, and select kernels. Both the GUI and documents can be shared over a network, either using local networks or cloud computing tools.

Jupyter Notebook has been widely adopted by data scientists and researchers. This is due to the intuitive nature of the GUI, which allows users to quickly create documents with code, output, and comments. Furthermore, the ability to mix languages within the same document has become increasingly popular. This allows users to use multiple languages for their data analysis and reporting.

Jupyter Notebook has also been gaining traction in the industry for applications in DevOps, web development, and machine learning. The notebook’s organizational structure provides a great way to manage code and dependencies with ease, making it an ideal tool for automating tasks and managing cloud infrastructure.

As a result of its popularity, there are several open-source Notebook extensions that enable additional features such as spellcheck, line-by-line execution, and embedding widgets. Jupyter Notebook is used by developers, data scientists, researchers, and educators around the world.