The main goal of the Jupyter Notebook is easy storytelling. Storytelling is essential in data science because you must have the power to do the following:
- See intermediate (debugging) results for each step of the algorithm you're developing
- Run only some sections (or cells) of the code
- Store intermediate results and have the ability to version them
- Present your work (this will be a combination of text, code, and images)
Here comes Jupyter; it actually implements all of the preceding actions:
- To launch the Jupyter Notebook, run the following command:
$> jupyter notebook
- A web browser window will pop up on your desktop, backed by a Jupyter server instance. This is what the main window looks ...
