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If you like that you might consider Beaker Notebooks which have some more advanced UI elements and better polyglot support: http://BeakerNotebook.com http://Bea

by spot 12y ago

If you like that you might consider Beaker Notebooks which have some more advanced UI elements and better polyglot support: http://BeakerNotebook.com http://BeakerNotebook.com You can combine multiple languages in the same notebook, and they can communicate.

devilsdounut 12y ago
Interesting. Any advantages of this over IPython? I see fancy rendering of DataFrames, but there are libraries that let you do this in IPython.
- spot 12y ago
  Thanks. Beaker has autotranslation for communicating among languages, and you can have multiple languages in one notebook. Four months ago someone asked for compare and contrast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8366245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8366245 Since then we have fixed a ton of bugs and fleshed out the concept. The reflection API and JS scriptability are about to be released, along with a bunch of UI polish, performance, and all kinds of fixes. There are only 2-3 of us working for 2 years so far. The project is still young and developing, and in fact we are hiring! Especially we need a Javascript Engineer, Angular experience a plus: http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/935.html http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/935.html
  - IanCal 12y ago
    This looks really interesting, thanks. The communication is great, often I want to munge the data / collect things in python, then graph them in R.
- spot 12y ago
  To respond more directly to your question: Yes you can get better tables with IPy if you remember to load a lib and call a function. With Beaker it just works by default. Ditto for sharing, Beaker has one-click sharing to the web built in, with IPy you have to load an extension. On the Mac, Beaker comes packaged as a native app that you just drag to Applications and the Dock.
otoburb 12y ago
First time stumbling across Beaker Notebook. Looks great! Recently heard about Jupyter[1][2], which is a project to generalize the IPython backend to be language agnostic. Are the various Two Sigma financial services entities using Beaker internally? Seems like a natural fit for the highly mathematical nature of the work Two Sigma staff and entities are engaged in. Interesting tweet from one of the IPython/Jupyter devs[3] last year about Beaker. Jupyter and Beaker state similar missions, although Beaker seems to have focused more on "multiple languages within a single notebook" leveraging the IPython backend. Sounds like the two projects can both co-exist due to the slightly different emphasis influencing each project's trajectory. [1] http://jupyter.org/ http://jupyter.org/ [2] https://speakerdeck.com/fperez/project-jupyter https://speakerdeck.com/fperez/project-jupyter [3] https://twitter.com/Mbussonn/status/481108119633035264 https://twitter.com/Mbussonn/status/481108119633035264
- baldfat 12y ago
  Jupyter is coming BUT I have zero idea why the community around iPython still doesn't know that iPython will only equal the Python back end and Jupyter will be the over all project. This switch is happening in iPython 3.0 and still the lack of public information is concerning for me. It feels that Jupyter has loss steam????
  - jasongrout 12y ago
    Jupyter definitely hasn't lost interest - the IPython team is currently spending a lot of time finishing up IPython 3.0 and seeking funding (grants, etc.). IPython 3.0 is due to be released soon now (3.0 beta 1 was tagged a few days ago, and the development is somewhat in a soft freeze in preparation for 3.0). The general plan is to split up the IPython repo and transition to a Jupyter repo after 3.0 is released, and have a relatively quick iteration to 4.0 (mainly consisting of the repo split).
spot 12y ago
PS: we have a prerelease of v1.2 available, including a docker container. see the last question at the bottom of the page on our FAQ for the download links: http://beakernotebook.com/faq http://beakernotebook.com/faq

by spot 12y ago

devilsdounut 12y ago

Interesting. Any advantages of this over IPython? I see fancy rendering of DataFrames, but there are libraries that let you do this in IPython.

spot 12y ago
Thanks. Beaker has autotranslation for communicating among languages, and you can have multiple languages in one notebook. Four months ago someone asked for compare and contrast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8366245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8366245 Since then we have fixed a ton of bugs and fleshed out the concept. The reflection API and JS scriptability are about to be released, along with a bunch of UI polish, performance, and all kinds of fixes. There are only 2-3 of us working for 2 years so far. The project is still young and developing, and in fact we are hiring! Especially we need a Javascript Engineer, Angular experience a plus: http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/935.html http://www.twosigma.com/careers/position/935.html
- IanCal 12y ago
  This looks really interesting, thanks. The communication is great, often I want to munge the data / collect things in python, then graph them in R.
spot 12y ago
To respond more directly to your question: Yes you can get better tables with IPy if you remember to load a lib and call a function. With Beaker it just works by default. Ditto for sharing, Beaker has one-click sharing to the web built in, with IPy you have to load an extension. On the Mac, Beaker comes packaged as a native app that you just drag to Applications and the Dock.

otoburb 12y ago

First time stumbling across Beaker Notebook. Looks great! Recently heard about Jupyter[1][2], which is a project to generalize the IPython backend to be language agnostic. Are the various Two Sigma financial services entities using Beaker internally? Seems like a natural fit for the highly mathematical nature of the work Two Sigma staff and entities are engaged in. Interesting tweet from one of the IPython/Jupyter devs[3] last year about Beaker. Jupyter and Beaker state similar missions, although Beaker seems to have focused more on "multiple languages within a single notebook" leveraging the IPython backend. Sounds like the two projects can both co-exist due to the slightly different emphasis influencing each project's trajectory. [1] http://jupyter.org/ http://jupyter.org/ [2] https://speakerdeck.com/fperez/project-jupyter https://speakerdeck.com/fperez/project-jupyter [3] https://twitter.com/Mbussonn/status/481108119633035264 https://twitter.com/Mbussonn/status/481108119633035264

baldfat 12y ago
Jupyter is coming BUT I have zero idea why the community around iPython still doesn't know that iPython will only equal the Python back end and Jupyter will be the over all project. This switch is happening in iPython 3.0 and still the lack of public information is concerning for me. It feels that Jupyter has loss steam????
- jasongrout 12y ago
  Jupyter definitely hasn't lost interest - the IPython team is currently spending a lot of time finishing up IPython 3.0 and seeking funding (grants, etc.). IPython 3.0 is due to be released soon now (3.0 beta 1 was tagged a few days ago, and the development is somewhat in a soft freeze in preparation for 3.0). The general plan is to split up the IPython repo and transition to a Jupyter repo after 3.0 is released, and have a relatively quick iteration to 4.0 (mainly consisting of the repo split).

spot 12y ago

PS: we have a prerelease of v1.2 available, including a docker container. see the last question at the bottom of the page on our FAQ for the download links: http://beakernotebook.com/faq http://beakernotebook.com/faq