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Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice

An improved architecture and enthusiastic user base are driving uptake of the open-source web tool.
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  1. Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Perched atop the Cerro Pachón ridge in the Chilean Andes is a building site that will eventually become the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). When it comes online in 2022, the telescope will generate terabytes of data each night as it surveys the southern skies automatically. And to crunch those data, astronomers will use a familiar and increasingly popular tool: the Jupyter notebook.

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Nature 563, 145-146 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07196-1

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