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Formatting articles as jupyter notebooks might help with reproducibility, but it wouldn't necessarily help with understanding. distill.pub has a journal that s
by scribu 7y ago
Formatting articles as jupyter notebooks might help with reproducibility, but it wouldn't necessarily help with understanding.
distill.pub has a journal that strongly encourages interactive articles: https://distill.pub/journal/ https://distill.pub/journal/
It's a lot of work, tho:
> One good test for whether your article is a fit for Distill is whether your collaborators and you are willing to put in whatever time is necessary to write and illustrate an outstanding article. In our experience, this often takes 100+ hours.
- dv_dt 7y agoReproducibility is one of the core problems of the article. I'm not sure any format can assure understanding by itself - that's more the purview of the reviewers I would think. Applying the criticism to my own suggestion: even the reproducibility issue is only tangentially helped by a Jupyter format, it may only bring reviewers to the point where one might execute the notebook (though there are still issues there if its an exceeding long computation or needs special hardware setup, or the notebook executes w/o demonstrating actual computation).