We see it being helpful for research in a couple of ways. You have all of the great python ecosystem at your fingertips for analysis. The really exciting part

We see it being helpful for research in a couple of ways. You have all of the great python ecosystem at your fingertips for analysis. The really exciting part for scientists is the way you can seamlessly share code. Instead of having to install someone else's complete coding environment with all of the compilation steps, you will be able to simply see their code run.