Still Using Jupyter Notebook? Check This New Alternative Out!šŸ¤©

Angelina Yang
3 min readMar 26, 2024

Speaking of alternatives for Jupyter Notebooks, you might already be familiar with tools like Google Colab, or Kaggle Notebook. Both are powerful tools for your data science or machine learning projects.

Lately, I stumbled upon a new tool thatā€™s mind-blowing.

It is:

A reactive Python notebook thatā€™s reproducible, git-friendly, and deployable as scripts or apps.

Hereā€™s something that might convince you:

What does this remind you?

Reproducibility.

You are correct.

If you are a regular Jupyter Notebook user, youā€™d know about this: manually running and re-running cells can be very error-prone.

Itā€™s a known problem for Jupyter Notebooks that not all the notebooks can be reproduced.

A 2020 study of 1.2 million notebooks showed that this is not a small issue. In the study, it was revealed that notebooks executed in a non-linear order, categorized as ā€œnot consistent,ā€ comprised a staggering 36% of the investigated notebooks!!šŸ˜±

One of the core issues with traditional Jupyter notebooks is the lack of consistency between code, outputs, and program states. This tool addressesā€¦

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