Understanding Project Jupyter and Notebooks

Project Jupyter purpose and open standards

Project Jupyter is an open-source project that develops software, open standards, and services for interactive computing across multiple programming languages. It was spun off from IPython in 2014 and is supported by the Jupyter Foundation. The project’s name reflects its core language support—Julia, Python, and R—and its overall goal is to make interactive, notebook-based computing broadly usable and interoperable. A central purpose of Jupyter is to enable interactive data science and scientific computing through notebook-style workflows that can run code in many languages via execution environments called “kernels.” Jupyter Notebook (and related interfaces like JupyterLab) provides a browser-based environment where documents can contain ordered input/output cells with code, text, plots, and rich media. The notebooks are stored in an interoperable, versioned JSON-based format (typically .ipynb), which supports reuse and compatibility across different implementations and tools.

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Origins: spin-off from IPython in 2014

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