Abstract: Python offers basic facilities for interactive work and a comprehensive library on top of which more sophisticated systems can be built. The IPython project provides on enhanced interactive ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks provide unique insight into his mind, knowledge and discoveries. More than 4,000 pages of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks remain. Over his lifetime, he made meticulous ...

Spring is finally here, and all we want to do is surround ourselves with nature’s beauty. It’s the time of year when those who are lucky enough to have bespoke boot rooms transform them into dedicated ...

Ethan White, an ecologist at Utah State University in Logan, discusses the software and tools that he finds most useful in his research. How would you describe your research? I use data generated by ...

There is a huge amount of interest in reproducible research and replication of results. Part of this is driven by some of the pretty major mistakes in reproducibility we have seen in economics and ...

In this tutorial we are going to configure IPython notebook with Apache Spark on YARN in a few steps. IPython notebook is an interactive Python shell which lets you interact with your data one step at ...

As I noted in a recent post on reproducing data projects, notebooks have become popular tools for maintaining, sharing, and replicating long data science workflows. Much of that is due to the ...

Lancet is a new, simulator-independent Python utility for succinctly specifying, launching, and collating results from large batches of interrelated computationally demanding program runs. This paper ...