If you’ve ever written SQL queries to extract data from a database, chances are you are familiar with a SQL IDE like the screenshot below. The IDE offers features like auto-completion, output visualization, table schema and the ER diagram. SQL IDE is the go-to tool for most analysts but it…

At ReviewNB, we’ve studied hundreds of teams successfully collaborating on Jupyter Notebooks via GitHub Pull Requests. More than 100,000+ notebooks have been reviewed on our platform by cutting edge data science teams from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, NASA JPL and many others. While Git is a proven way of collaborating on…

How to enable Jupyter Notebook collaboration on GitHub — Most people know Jupyter notebooks as a scratchpad for data scientists. Jupyter’s ease of use accompanied with its rich ecosystem (visualizations libraries, magics, widgets, extensions) makes it an indispensable weapon in the data scientist’s armory. A growing number of data science groups are using notebooks as a collaboration medium within…

Version Control is one of the major challenges with Jupyter Notebooks. We can use git to version control notebooks but it’s hard to review notebook diffs i.e. see what changed from one notebook version to another. The issue stems from the fact that Jupyter uses JSON underneath & stores rich…

Jupyter notebooks are fantastic in many ways but collaboration is not so easy with them. In this article we’ll look at all the tools you can leverage to make notebooks play nicely with modern version control systems like git! Why is Jupyter version control so hard? The software world has converged on git as it’s version control…

A simple way for teams to review Jupyter notebooks on GitHub — At ReviewNB, we already support Jupyter notebook visual diffs & reviews for GitHub commits/ pull requests. Today we’re releasing JDoc, a simple way for teams to review notebooks on GitHub. You can open a notebook in your repository & start discussion under any notebook cell. Teammates watching this repository or…

There’s no easy way to version control notebooks from Jupyter UI. Of course you can drop down to command line & learn a bunch of git commands to version control your notebooks. But not everyone using Jupyter is proficient at git. …

This is a comprehensive Git tutorial for Jupyter Notebook users. Feel free to skip a section if you’re already familiar with it. At the end you’ll be able to - Push your notebooks to a GitHub repository Start versioning your notebooks Review Notebook Pull Requests on GitHub Learn how to…

This is a short post for ReviewNB users describing how to navigate quickly from GitHub to a relevant page in ReviewNB. If you are unfamiliar with ReviewNB, you might want to skip this and learn more about us on our homepage first. Let’s dive in. The URL structure for ReviewNB…