(2018-09-01) Crichton Future Of Notebooks Lessons From Jupytercon

Will Crichton: The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon

At JupyterCon, I learned three things: reactive notebooks are the future, Jupyter is the new Bash, and data science is a gateway drug

1. Reactive notebooks

“notebooks have tons and tons of hidden state that’s easy to screw up and difficult to reason about.”

While neither seems like a fully optimal solution, it does seem like reactive notebooks are growing in popularity. Observable’s Javascript notebooks also adopt this idea.

2. Jupyter is the new Bash

In “Scheduled notebooks: A means for manageable and traceable code execution”, a Netflix engineer described how they have replaced Bash scripts with Jupyter notebooks for ETL pipelines and cron jobs.

3. Data science as a gateway drug in education