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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

Julia limitations in Jupyter


I have written Julia scripts and accessed different Julia libraries without issue in Jupyter. I have not noticed any limitations on its use or any performance degradation. I imagine some aspects of Julia that are very screen dependent (such as using the Julia webstack to build a website) may be hampered by conflicting uses of the same concept.

I have repeatedly seen updates being run when I am attempting to run a Julia script, as shown in the following screenshot. I am not sure why they decided to always update the underlying tool rather than use what is in play and have the user specify whether to update libraries:

 

 

I have also noticed that once a Julia Notebook is opened, even though I have closed the page, it will still display Running on the home page. I don't recall seeing this behavior with the other script languages that are available.

Another issue has been trying to use a secured package in my script, for example, plotly. It appears to be a clean process...