Explore JupyterLab, The next-generation Jupyter frontend, which enables users to work with the core building blocks of the classic Jupyter Notebook in a more flexible and integrated manner
JupyterLab, the next-generation end-user application for Project Jupyter, will eventually replace the widely used classic Jupyter Notebook. Brian Granger, Chris Colbert, and Ian Rose offer an overview of JupyterLab, which enables users to work with the core building blocks of the classic Jupyter Notebook in a more flexible and integrated manner. Users can arrange multiple notebooks, text editors, terminals, and custom components into multiple tabs and panels, and these components have been carefully designed to enable users to consume them together or separately in order to support novel data-driven workflows. Examples include dragging cells between different notebooks, running a selection of code from a text file in a console/kernel, and real-time rendering of Markdown documents.
JupyterLab is built on top of a robust npm-based extension system that allows anyone to customize JupyterLab and access the public APIs of its core extensions. JupyterLab has been built with a web-first vision, but there is also a native Electron app that provides a simplified user experience. Brian, Chris, and Ian lead a live demo exploring familiar building blocks along with fun new features such as real-time collaboration, interactive rendering of CSV files with millions of rows, GeoJSON support, and integrated Vega/Vega-Lite visualizations.
Speaker(s)
Ian Rose
Ian Rose was a postdoctoral scholar at BIDS working on Project Jupyter. He did his PhD at UC Berkeley in earth and planetary science after undergraduate training in geophysics at Yale University. During his graduate studies, he worked in computational geodynamics, modeling the thermal, chemical, and rotational evolution of Earth and other planetary bodies. In that time, he developed software for modeling the physics of planetary interiors as well as for Earth science education. At BIDS, he will be working on bringing real-time collaboration to the Jupyter Project.