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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

Publishing a notebook


You can publish a notebook/dashboard using markdown. Markdown involves adding annotations to cells in your notebook that are interpreted by Jupyter and converted into the more standard HTML representations that you see in other published materials.

In all cases, we create the cell with the markdown type. We then enter the syntax for markdown in the cell. Once we run markdown cells the display of the cell changes to the effective markdown representation. You should also note there is no line number designation for markdown cells, as there is no code executing in markdown cells.

Font markdown

You can adjust font style information using italic and bold HTML notations. For example, if we have the code format of a cell as follows. You can use markdown that has markdown tags for italics (<i>) and bold (<b>):

When we run the cell we see the effective markdown as:

List markdown

We can use lists such as the following, where we start an un-numbered list (we could have used...