Introduction to Notebooks

This is a notebook—an interactive, editable document defined by code. It’s a computer program, but one that’s designed to be easier to read and write by humans. A notebook can be used as a scratchpad for exploring data, or to explain quantitative phenomena. Because the code runs live in your browser, notebooks are also a powerful medium for studying dynamic systems and algorithms. (See Stephen Wolfram’s What Is a Computational Essay? for more.) Notebooks are comprised of cells. A cell can be pretty much any