<h1id="Jupyter-Notebooks">Jupyter Notebooks<aclass="anchor-link"href="#Jupyter-Notebooks">¶</a></h1><p>Today, electronic documents do not offer much more than their paper versions, except maybe an easier diffusion. They are generally PDF.</p>
<h2id="0---Installation">0 - Installation<aclass="anchor-link"href="#0---Installation">¶</a></h2><p>One simple way to install Jupyter on Mac, Windows or GNU/Linux is to download <ahref="https://www.continuum.io/downloads">Anaconda</a>.</p>
<h2id="1---Structure">1 - Structure<aclass="anchor-link"href="#1---Structure">¶</a></h2><p>Jupyer document are constituted of (mainly) two types of cells:</p>
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<li>Markdown cells (for rich text formatting)</li>
<li>Code cells (more than 50 languages are supported, including Python, R, BASH, Scala, Ruby, Matlab and Octave)</li>
<li><p>An impulse was given by <ahref="http://norvig.com/ipython/">Peter Norvig (Google Research Head)</a>: Notably by <ahref="http://norvig.com/ipython/Economics.ipynb">one of his notebook</a> on economic disparities.</p>
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<li><p>Nbviewer allows <ahref="http://nbviewer.ipython.org">http://nbviewer.ipython.org</a> to display notebooks online.</p>
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<li><p>Through clear position taken by publishers such as PLoS and <ahref="http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the-code-1.16261">Nature</a>.</p>
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<li><p>Today, interactive notebooks are published <ahref="http://nb.bianp.net/">daily</a> in many disciplines.</p>
<h2id="4---Do-it-yourself">4 - Do it yourself<aclass="anchor-link"href="#4---Do-it-yourself">¶</a></h2><ul>
<li><p>Install Jupyter or try it online using <ahref="http://try.jupyter.org">try.jupyter.org</a>,</p>
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<li><p>Discover notebooks on the website <ahref="http://nb.bianp.net/">bianp.net</a>; you may open then on you computer or online using <ahref="http://nbviewer.ipython.org">Nbviewer</a>,</p>