The future of the Jupyter Notebook interface
04-19, 11:50–12:20 (Europe/Berlin), B05-B06

Jupyter Notebooks have been a widely popular tool for data science in recent years due to their ability to combine code, text, and visualizations in a single document.

Despite its popularity, the core functionality and user experience of the Classic Jupyter Notebook interface has remained largely unchanged over the past years.

Lately the Jupyter Notebook project decided to base its next major version 7 on JupyterLab components and extensions, which means many JupyterLab features are also available to Jupyter Notebook users.

In this presentation, we will demo the new features coming in Jupyter Notebook version 7 and how they are relevant to existing users of the Classic Notebook.


Jupyter Notebook 7 is based on the JupyterLab codebase, but provides an equivalent user experience to the current (version 6) application. Notebook 7 keeps the document-centric user experience at its core, and brings many new features that were not previously available:

  • Debugger
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Theming and dark mode
  • Internationalization
  • Improved Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance
  • Support for many JupyterLab extensions, including Jupyter LSP (Language Server Protocol) for enhanced code completions
  • Performance improvements

This talk will be about demoing the new features coming to Notebook 7, and how uses of the Classic Notebook interface should approach.

We will also cover other aspects mentioned in the related Jupyter Enhancement Proposal, such as support for popular extensions and future developments: https://jupyter.org/enhancement-proposals/79-notebook-v7/notebook-v7.html


Expected audience expertise: Domain

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Expected audience expertise: Python

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Abstract as a tweet

Jupyter Notebook 7 is the new version of the popular document-oriented notebook interface. It comes packed with a lot of new features, and its future looks bright!

Public link to supporting material

https://jupyter.org/enhancement-proposals/79-notebook-v7/notebook-v7.html

Jeremy Tuloup is a Technical Director at QuantStack and a Jupyter Distinguished Contributor. Maintainer and contributor of JupyterLab, JupyterLite, Jupyter Notebook, Voilà Dashboards, and many projects within the Jupyter ecosystem.

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