<story><title>Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/2016/04/15/notebook-4-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>analog31</author><text>Jupyter&amp;#x2F;Python has been game changing for me.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a commercial software developer, but a scientist working on technology development. I&amp;#x27;ve been programming for 30+ years.&lt;p&gt;Jupyter has become my lab notebook. In the past, I always had illegible, disorganized notebooks, files, and program code, all over the place. A Jupyter notebook lets me organize all of that stuff in one place, in a narrative fashion, allowing me to reconstruct what I did, long after I&amp;#x27;ve forgotten the details. The reasons for open communication of methods and results to the public, also apply to internal work.&lt;p&gt;My notebooks become my reports. I&amp;#x27;ve abandoned PowerPoint, and my colleagues, including managers, don&amp;#x27;t seem to mind. Seeing the actual work might actually give them a feeling of involvement, like inviting them into the lab. They&amp;#x27;re also a good way of communicating a prototype of a process to the software development team, when an idea ends up in a product. Even if they don&amp;#x27;t like Python, the programmers can read and understand it.&lt;p&gt;I can actually run some of my data acquisition code directly within Jupyter. A code cell that spits out an inline graph is practically the default interface for a lot of this kind of work, so I don&amp;#x27;t have to build a unique GUI for every kind of test. This speeds up incremental refinement of an experimental technique, even if the routines that I write end up in a &amp;quot;straight&amp;quot; Python program when it&amp;#x27;s time to let an experiment run for a few hours or days.&lt;p&gt;Granted, Jupyter won&amp;#x27;t turn bad programmers into good. Learning good programming methods is still a gap in the education of scientists.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/2016/04/15/notebook-4-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benatkin</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also a newer alternative called Zeppelin:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zeppelin.incubator.apache.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zeppelin.incubator.apache.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comparison: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;pulse&amp;#x2F;comprehensive-comparison-jupyter-vs-zeppelin-hoc-q-phan-mba-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;pulse&amp;#x2F;comprehensive-comparison-jupy...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>