What Is Jupyter Notebook

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∟What Is Jupyter Notebook

This section provides a quick introduction on Jupyter Notebook, which is a web-based interactive computing platform to create live code/output and narrative text into interactive documents.

What Is Jupyter Notebook? Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. It combines live code/output and narrative text into interactive documents called Notebooks.

Jupyter Notebook was initially called IPython Notebook developed 2011 by a team including Fernando Pérez, Brian Granger, and Min Ragan-Kelley. Now it is supported by the Jupyter project team at jupyter.org.

Main features of Jupyter Notebook are:

Interactive execution - You can execute code interactively like the Python shell environment.
Graphics output - You can visualize data with graphics output interactively.
Web-base user interface - You can access it anywhere with just a Web browser.
Multiple programming languages - You can write and run code in Python, R, C++, JavaScript and other languages.
Formatted narratives - You can include formatted narrative text using Markdown symbols: #, ##, ###, *, **, etc.
HTML elements - You can include HTML elements to embed multimedia data in narratives.
Ready to publish - You can share your Notebooks (the code, text/graphics output, formatted narratives) as a single readable document with others.

Actually, there are 3 related products developed by jupyter.org.

Jupyter Notebook - The original Jupyter Notebook platform.
JupyterLab - The next generation of Jupyter Notebook with a better user interface, a terminal access and a file manager.
JupyterHub - A multi-user version of Jupyter Notebook designed for companies, classrooms and research labs.