Brian Granger and Fernando Perez of the IPython Project
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Brief Introduction
- Date of recording – June 3rd, 2015
- Hosts – Tobias Macey and Chris Patti
- Overview – Interview with Fernando Perez and Brian Granger, core developers of IPython/Project Jupyter
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Interview with Brian Granger and Fernando Perez
- Introductions
- How did you get introduced to Python? – Chris
- For anyone who may not have heard of or used IPython, can you describe what it is?
- How challenging was it to port IPython to Python 3?
- What prompted the name change from IPython to Project Jupyter and were there any associated changes in the project itself?
- Name inspired by Julia, Python and R – the three programming languages of data science
- Data scientists have adopted the use of IPython notebooks in their work on a large scale, what is it about notebooks that lend themselves to this particular problem domain?
- IPython Notebook seems like an incredible tool for educators is advanced fields. Have you seen wide spread adoption in this area and is it a focus for the project?
- Github recently added the ability to render notebooks in a repo. Did you work with them to build that integration?
- What are some of the most interesting uses of IPython notebooks that you have seen?
- Gallery of interesting notebooks on the wiki
- Reproducible academic publications
- Couple of dozen scientific papers, some very high profile
- Educational notebooks on various subjects
- Great learning resource, as well as entertaining
- MOOC taught between distributed team on Open EdX using IPython notebooks about numerical computing with Python
- Peter Norvig collection of IPython notebooks
- notebooks.codeneuro.org– time series data analysis <- Couldn’t get this to work. -Chris
- Gallery of interesting notebooks on the wiki
- Are there any notable projects that use IPython as one of their components?
- KBase for computational biology
- Sage – Open source mathematics project written in Python
- Created by number theorist William Stein
- Custom parser to allow for non-python syntax
- Quantopian – Collaborative platform for financial modeling. Runs on top of IPython
- Wakari from Continuum Analytics – hosted IPython with computing environment
- Rackspace hosts TempNB and other IPython services
- Where do you see Project Jupyter going in the future? Are there any particular new features you’d like to see added? – Tobias
- One of the biggest targeted features is real-time collaboration
- Prototyped by engineers from Google
- More modular UI and architecture
- Multi-user deployments with Jupyter Hub
- One of the biggest targeted features is real-time collaboration
- A few weeks ago we interviewed Jonathan Slenders who wrote ptpython, which brings IDE like capabilities to interactive Python. Have you ever considered including this in IPython?
- What are some of the features that an average user might not know about?
- Is there anything in particular that you would like to ask our listeners for help with?
- Pitch in with the development effort
- Organize community events on behalf of IPython/Jupyter
- Be patient while documentation improves
Picks
- Tobias
- Chris
- Brian Granger
- Fernando Perez
Keep in Touch
- Twitter @projectjupyter, @ipythondev, @ellisonbg, @fperez_org
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