At PyCon 2012, I took a tutorial on the IPython Notebook,
which I'd already been using for a month or two (ever since Wes
McKinney (the author of pandas)
introduced me to it). The tutorial blew me away -- these guys have
done a great job with the notebook so far, and it looks like it's
going to keep on improving at a really fast rate.
At Greg Wilson's urging, I'd already committed to doing a screencast
of ipynb. I was even more enthusiastic about the idea after sitting
through the tutorial. So, without further ado -- here it is!
http://youtu.be/HaS4NXxL5Qc
Note -- the Amazon EC2 AMI used for this is available publicly as
ami-74d00c1d. The IPython Notebook password is 'gadzooks'.
You can download the intro notebook I adapted for the screencast here:
http://ivory.idyll.org/permanent/00_notebook_intro_screencast.ipynb
Enjoy!
--titus
p.s. I mention StarCluster in passing -- it's a great scientist-oriented command line tool for working with EC2.
Legacy Comments
Posted by Matt on 2012-03-13 at 20:44.
Thanks for the demo! I'd like to recycle it but I am getting an
"Invalid JSON data" error when I try to import your notebook.
Posted by Titus Brown on 2012-03-15 at 12:00.
Matt, you're probably using an old version of ipython notebook; my
ipynb isn't compatible with 0.12. Sorry :)
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