A.9 Jupyter notebooks

Jupyter is a browser-based interactive environment mainly written in Python. While you can use it to edit and run Python immediately, it also supports other installable runtime environments called kernels and is widely used by data scientists. Developers have written over one hundred kernels and these support languages like R, Scala, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and even Fortran. [JUP]

Jupyter creates notebooks, which are combinations of text, images, code, and code execution results. A notebook is persistent, which means that you can save it and restart it later. By default, Jupyter uses the Markdown description language for formatting text.

Install and start Jupyter from the command line:

pip install jupyter
jupyter notebook

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