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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Cyrille Rossant
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Cyrille Rossant

Overview of this book

Python is one of the leading open source platforms for data science and numerical computing. IPython and the associated Jupyter Notebook offer efficient interfaces to Python for data analysis and interactive visualization, and they constitute an ideal gateway to the platform. IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook, Second Edition contains many ready-to-use, focused recipes for high-performance scientific computing and data analysis, from the latest IPython/Jupyter features to the most advanced tricks, to help you write better and faster code. You will apply these state-of-the-art methods to various real-world examples, illustrating topics in applied mathematics, scientific modeling, and machine learning. The first part of the book covers programming techniques: code quality and reproducibility, code optimization, high-performance computing through just-in-time compilation, parallel computing, and graphics card programming. The second part tackles data science, statistics, machine learning, signal and image processing, dynamical systems, and pure and applied mathematics.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization CookbookSecond Edition
Contributors
Preface
Index

Converting a Jupyter notebook to other formats with nbconvert


A Jupyter notebook is saved in a JSON text file. This file contains the entire contents of the notebook: text, code, and outputs. The Matplotlib figures are encoded as base64 strings within the notebooks, resulting in standalone, but sometimes big, notebook files.

Note

JSON is a human-readable, text-based, open standard format that can represent structured data. Although derived from JavaScript, it is language-independent. Its syntax bears some resemblance to Python dictionaries. JSON can be parsed in many languages including JavaScript and Python (using the json module in Python's standard library).

nbconvert (https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) is a tool that can convert notebooks to other formats: raw text, Markdown, HTML, LaTeX/PDF, and even slides with the reveal.js library. You will find more information about the different supported formats on the nbconvert documentation.

One typically uses the nbformat (https://nbformat...