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Vizier is a reproducibility-oriented notebook environment. Like Jupyter or Zeppelin, it lets you assemble complex, interactive data transformation workflows. Unlike those, Vizier provides a powerful set of tools to keep your notebook fresh and up to date, to help you debug and explore your data, and to keep track of everything you've done.

A few distinguishing features:

• Vizier is a polyglot: You can mix scala, python, sql, and more. Use whatever is the right tool for the job.
• Vizier has a spreadsheet mode: Open any dataframe as if it were a spreadsheet. Edit it, and even use formulas! All of your edits will show up back in the notebook.
• Vizier has graphical widgets: Streamline common tasks like data loading, data imputation, and data visualization and more down to just pointing and clicking.
• Vizier keeps cells fresh: Vizier automatically figures out inter-cell dependencies and re-runs cells when they need to be re-run. Or, freeze a cell to keep the results there while you make edits.
• Vizier has a history: Every edit you make is recorded in Vizier's history. Go back to an earlier version to see what you had there, or create a branch to make changes.
• Vizier's dataset stabilizer: Vizier's Dataset Stabilizer lens can record statistics about a dataset and warn you if they change.

VizierDB Documentation

1. Install Vizier Desktop
2. Getting Started
3. Basic Concepts
   • Vizier Overview
   • ... if you're coming from Jupyter
4. Vizier Spreadsheets
5. Using Vizier Cells
   • Using the Load Dataset Cell
   • Using the Python Cell
   • Using the SQL Cell
   • Using the Plot Cells
   • Using Lens Cells
   • Using Sampling Cells
6. Hack on Vizier with a Development Environment
   • Vizier's Architecture
   • Create new Cell Types
   • Development "Gotchas"
   • Developer Overview
   • The Cell State Model
   • The Export Format
7. Internal Documentation
   • Release Procedure