Re:Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of...
by gaius on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:43AM
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The majority of the complaints I hear about notebooks I think come from a misunderstanding of what they're supposed to be
No, the majority of complaints are that notebooks are great, but Jupyter is a bad notebook. I mean maybe it’s impressive to someone who’s never seen a notebook before but to someone used to Mathematica, MathCAD,
RMarkdown, org-mode, whatever, it just seems clunky as hell. I wonder how many “data scientists” claiming it as their top choice have ever tried anything else?
No, the majority of complaints are that notebooks are great, but Jupyter is a bad notebook. I mean maybe it’s impressive to someone who’s never seen a notebook before but to someone used to Mathematica, MathCAD, RMarkdown, org-mode, whatever, it just seems clunky as hell. I wonder how many “data scientists” claiming it as their top choice have ever tried anything else?