Jupyter Notebooks

Jupyter Notebooks are one of the primary tools for developing analyses with DEA. The ability to combine code with easy-to-read Markdown makes them useful for both developing and sharing work. Jupyter Notebooks can be used on both the DEA Sandbox and the NCI.

In addition to the documentation found in the following DEA Notebooks User Guide section, please see the dea-notebooks wiki on GitHub for more details on interacting and developing code with Jupyter Notebooks.

DEA Notebooks

View the DEA Notebooks

Opening a notebook

After launching JupterLab on the Sandbox or NCI (see the respective guides), double-click through the available folders to view notebooks (indicated by the .ipynb file extension). Then, double-click the notebook to open it in the main work area.

Read more about opening files in the JupyterLab Documentation.

Working with notebooks

For an in-depth guide on running and editing notebooks, see the introduction to Jupyter notebooks section of the Beginner’s guide.

Closing a notebook

Simply closing the notebook browser tab, will not shut down its “computational engine” (called the kernel). To shut down a kernel, go to the associated notebook and click on menu File -> Close and Halt. Alternatively, the Notebook Dashboard has a tab named Running that shows all the running notebooks (i.e. kernels) and allows shutting them down (by clicking on a Shutdown button).

Shutting down the Jupyter Notebook App

Closing the browser (or the tab) will not close the Jupyter Notebook App. To completely shut it down you need to close the associated terminal.

For more information about Jupyter Notebooks, see http://jupyter.org/