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Topic Jupyter Notebooks

Download and Install

  • A intallation guide can be found on the Juypter-Website
  • The presentation on Jupyter Notebooks (also created in a Jupyter Notebook) can be viewed here.
  • An example Jupyter Notebook featuring the famous iris data set can be found here.

What are Jupyter Notebooks

  • Jupyter Notbooks are a combination of code and explanatory text.

  • It can process code of 12 different programming languages

  • Key Advantage: A notebook contains both code and its output.

  • A notebook is therefore human readable and executable

  • Jupyter Notebooks are a great way to communicate scientific analysis

  • They are also great for developing code and doing stepwise data analysis because the cell structure facilitates running small code sections

  • You can write text in markdown

  • You can link to external source

  • It runs in your browser (creates local server)

Use cases

  • Documenting a process
  • Tutorials e.g. in teaching scientific analysis
  • Show how things are used
  • Enables learners to try things out
  • Data analysis
  • Code development
  • Create figures

Tasks you can solve with Jupyter Notebooks are

  • Transformation and cleaning of data
  • Data visualisation
  • Statistical modelling