Data frame rendering in the various notebooks (beaker,jupyter,zeppelin,..) is wonderful. Your workflow sounds closest to what I do. If I want to visualize some

Data frame rendering in the various notebooks (beaker,jupyter,zeppelin,..) is wonderful. Your workflow sounds closest to what I do. If I want to visualize something I tend to compile my thoughts/imports and organize things in an editor first and put it in a notebook in parallel. It helps with version control as well.