Introduction to Dnotebook

Over the past few years in the field of data science, interactive computing environments such as Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab have actually made a huge impact in terms of how code is shared, and this has enhanced fast and rapid iterations of ideas.

In recent times, data science is moving towards the browser side, in order to support diverse users such as web developers. This means that a lot of mature data science tooling available in the Python ecosystem needed to be ported or made available in JavaScript as well. Following this line of reasoning, we, the authors of this book, as well as the creators of Danfo.js, decided to create a new version of the Jupyter Notebook specifically targeted at the JavaScript ecosystem.

Dnotebook, as we have called it, helps you to perform quick and interactive experimentation/prototyping in JavaScript. That means you can write code and view the results instantly in an interactive and notebook-like manner as seen in...