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Learning Jupyter 5 - Second Edition

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Learning Jupyter 5 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

The Jupyter Notebook 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, and machine learning. Learning Jupyter 5 will help you get to grips with interactive computing using real-world examples. The book starts with a detailed overview of the Jupyter Notebook system and its installation in different environments. Next, you will learn to integrate the Jupyter system with different programming languages such as R, Python, Java, JavaScript, and Julia, and explore various versions and packages that are compatible with the Notebook system. Moving ahead, you will master interactive widgets and namespaces and work with Jupyter in a multi-user mode. By the end of this book, you will have used Jupyter with a big dataset and be able to apply all the functionalities you’ve explored throughout the book. You will also have learned all about the Jupyter Notebook and be able to start performing data transformation, numerical simulation, and data visualization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

A sample interactive Notebook


For this chapter, we will use a simple Notebook that asks the user for some information, and displays certain information.

 

For example, we could have a script like this (taken from the previous Chapter 9, Interactive Widgets):

from ipywidgets import interact 
def myfunction(x): 
    return x 
interact(myfunction, x= "Hello World "); 

The script presents a textbox to the user with the original value of the box containing the Hello World string. As the user interacts with the input field and changes the value, then the value of the xvariable in the script changes accordingly and is displayed on screen. For example, I have changed the value to letter A:

We can see the multiuser problem: if we just open the same page in another browser window (copy the URL, open a new browser window, paste in the URL, and hit the Enter key), we get the exact same display. The new window should have started with a new script, just prompting you with the default Hello World message....