Ipython notebook completely changed the way I do data science, specifically because its iterative/exploratory capabilities are so powerful. You can also hook it

Ipython notebook completely changed the way I do data science, specifically because its iterative/exploratory capabilities are so powerful. You can also hook it up to large scale service like hadoop/spark. Embedded Matplotlib charts have spoiled me. I cringe at the thought that I used to write scripts to output csv, run them on the command line, then copy the output to excel to graph the data. Never again!