Stage 1 · Lesson 2 of 8
Working in Jupyter notebooks
A is one document that mixes code, its output, charts and your notes. That makes it the standard place to explore data. Learn the basics: run a cell with Shift+Enter, restart the (the Python process behind the notebook), inspect a variable, and write down what you found in cells.
The danger is . Cells can run in any order, so a notebook that works for you may fail for someone who runs it top to bottom. For example, a variable may come from a cell you have since deleted.
Before you trust a result, use Restart and Run All. Move anything you reuse, such as cleaning functions, into a .py file you import. Notebooks are for exploring; scripts are for repeating.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- CoursePaidGrokking Python Fundamentals
Design Gurus · Beginner · $50
Core Python with an exercise after nearly every lesson, before the data libraries
- BookFreePython for Data Analysis, 3rd Edition
Wes McKinney · Beginner
Free online: NumPy, pandas and plotting from pandas' own creator