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Learning Jupyter

You're reading from   Learning Jupyter Select, Share, Interact and Integrate with Jupyter Notebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884870
Length 238 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to Jupyter 2. Jupyter Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER 3. Jupyter R Scripting 4. Jupyter Julia Scripting 5. Jupyter JavaScript Coding 6. Interactive Widgets 7. Sharing and Converting Jupyter Notebooks 8. Multiuser Jupyter Notebooks 9. Jupyter Scala 10. Jupyter and Big Data

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 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 available.

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

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