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Learning Jupyter

By : Dan Toomey
Book Image

Learning Jupyter

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 and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text. The Jupyter Notebook system is extensively used in domains such as data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, machine learning, and much more. This book starts with a detailed overview of the Jupyter Notebook system and its installation in different environments. Next we’ll help you will learn to integrate Jupyter system with different programming languages such as R, Python, JavaScript, and Julia and explore the various versions and packages that are compatible with the Notebook system. Moving ahead, you master interactive widgets, namespaces, and working with Jupyter in a multiuser mode. Towards the end, you will use Jupyter with a big data set and will apply all the functionalities learned throughout the book.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Jupyter
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Installing widgets


The widgets package is an upgrade to the standard Jupyter installation. You can update the widgets package using this command:

pip install ipywidgets

Note that, if ipywidgets is already installed on your machine you may need to use this command for the upgrade to take effect:

pip install -upgrade ipywidgets

Once complete, you must then upgrade your Jupyter installation using this command:

jupyter nbextension enable -py widgetsnbextension

Tip

You may have to restart your notebook for the extensions to take effect.

If you do not install the package and the upgrade, then when you run your widgets script you will get a warning message in the display—The installed widget JavaScript is the wrong version:

Note

I updated my installation, but still received the warning message for some screens. I assume it is a matter of time before this warning message bug is resolved in a future version of the software.