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Jupyter is a joke compared to spreadsheets, it doesn't auto-recalculate when you edit cells.
by CJefferson 5y ago
Jupyter is a joke compared to spreadsheets, it doesn't auto-recalculate when you edit cells.
- TremendousJudge 5y agoyeah, and also it's 1-dimensional; you can only go up or down, never to the right
- goatlover 5y agoBecause the data is inside a data structure like a table or dictionary that you can output, iterate and map over however you like with the various Python and library methods or functions.
- goatlover 5y agoTrue, but you have access to whatever Python libraries are installed, and your output is web-based. So you can potentially output anything a browser can display, including interactive 3D graphics and widgets. You also have access to the command line in Jupyter, so you can run whatever shell commands you like.
- wibblewobble123 5y agoObservable does. So does Julia’s Pluto.jl. You’re not paying attention to the space but recalculating notebooks are gaining popularity.
- FabHK 5y agoNot only that, it doesn't even keep track of the calculation graph, so it doesn't know what needs calculating, or in which order to calculate.