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I'd really like 1 thing from those articles. I didn't knew what Jupyter was in first place. So please dear authors when I click on your articles I'd like to ha

I'd really like 1 thing from those articles. I didn't knew what Jupyter was in first place. So please dear authors when I click on your articles I'd like to have a single sentence somewhere on the landing zone where I can easily figure what we're talking about and not having to read entire paragraphs Thanks,

afshin 9y ago
The closest thing to what you're asking for is the first image in the post, which is a screenshot that has this caption: > JupyterLab is an interactive development environment for working with notebooks, code, and data.
- isaiahg 9y ago
  But what are jupyter notebooks? Had to Google it to find out. Still not sure what it does.
  - Wehrdo 9y ago
    This isn't meant to be snarky, but maybe this post just isn't for you, in the same way that posts about Ruby on Rails simply aren't for me. On the other hand, if you use Python, you should definitely check out Jupyter notebooks (formerly IPython notebooks, and now JupyterLab, I guess). They're useful when prototyping data pipelines, since the state of the interpreter is saved, letting you iterate on ideas and see the outputs quickly.
dragonwriter 9y ago
The source article is a blog entry on the Jupyter project's blog; i don't think its unreasonable to expect that readers of the Jupyter blog have some idea what Jupyter is; its kind of unreasonable to expect every blog entry to repeat that. Now, readers of HN might not know, and HN's decision (which is, on balance, I think beneficial) to not allow additional supporting commentary besides the title on posts with links to outside articles prevents contextualizing this well for HN readers. (Perhaps allowing one or a small number of supporting links with very brief annotations might be an improvement, but we really do want to avoid Slashdot-style editorializing of submissions, which the current setup does quite efficiently.)

afshin 9y ago

The closest thing to what you're asking for is the first image in the post, which is a screenshot that has this caption: > JupyterLab is an interactive development environment for working with notebooks, code, and data.

isaiahg 9y ago
But what are jupyter notebooks? Had to Google it to find out. Still not sure what it does.
- Wehrdo 9y ago
  This isn't meant to be snarky, but maybe this post just isn't for you, in the same way that posts about Ruby on Rails simply aren't for me. On the other hand, if you use Python, you should definitely check out Jupyter notebooks (formerly IPython notebooks, and now JupyterLab, I guess). They're useful when prototyping data pipelines, since the state of the interpreter is saved, letting you iterate on ideas and see the outputs quickly.

dragonwriter 9y ago

The source article is a blog entry on the Jupyter project's blog; i don't think its unreasonable to expect that readers of the Jupyter blog have some idea what Jupyter is; its kind of unreasonable to expect every blog entry to repeat that. Now, readers of HN might not know, and HN's decision (which is, on balance, I think beneficial) to not allow additional supporting commentary besides the title on posts with links to outside articles prevents contextualizing this well for HN readers. (Perhaps allowing one or a small number of supporting links with very brief annotations might be an improvement, but we really do want to avoid Slashdot-style editorializing of submissions, which the current setup does quite efficiently.)