Big data refers to datasets that are too large, complex, or fast-changing to be handled by traditional data processing tools. It is characterized by the four V's: Big data analytics plays a crucial ...

At some point, we all need to show our work. Most programming work is shared either as raw source code or as a compiled executable. The source code provides complete information, but in a way that’s ...

You’ve generated a ton of data. How do you analyze it and present it? Sure, you can use a spreadsheet. Or break out some programming tools. Or try LabPlot. Sure, it is sort of like a spreadsheet. But ...

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 ...

This year marks ten years since the launch of the IPython Notebook. The open-source tool, now known as the Jupyter Notebook, has become an exceedingly popular piece of data-science kit, with millions ...

The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows editing and running notebook documents that contain programming codes, equations, graphical displays and explanatory contents via a web browser.