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Jupyter for Data Science

By : Dan Toomey
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Jupyter for Data Science

By: Dan Toomey

Overview of this book

Jupyter Notebook is a web-based environment that enables interactive computing in notebook documents. It allows you to create documents that contain live code, equations, and visualizations. This book is a comprehensive guide to getting started with data science using the popular Jupyter notebook. If you are familiar with Jupyter notebook and want to learn how to use its capabilities to perform various data science tasks, this is the book for you! From data exploration to visualization, this book will take you through every step of the way in implementing an effective data science pipeline using Jupyter. You will also see how you can utilize Jupyter's features to share your documents and codes with your colleagues. The book also explains how Python 3, R, and Julia can be integrated with Jupyter for various data science tasks. By the end of this book, you will comfortably leverage the power of Jupyter to perform various tasks in data science successfully.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Caching your notebook


Caching is a common programming practice to speed up performance. If the computer does not have to reload a section of code or variable or file, but can just access directly from a cache this will improve performance.

There is a mechanism to cache your notebook if you are deploying into a Docker space. Docker is a mechanism for virtualizing code over many instances in one machine. It has become common practice to do so in the Java programming world. Luckily, Docker is very flexible and a method has been determined to use Jupyter in Docker as well. Once in Docker, it is a minor adjustment to automatically cache your pages in Docker. The underlying tool used is memcached, yet another widespread common tool for caching anything, in this case Jupyter Notebooks.