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Beyond linear notebooks

What's this blog post about?

Jupyter Notebooks have been widely used in analytics and data science but face limitations in interpretability, reproducibility, and performance due to their reliance on imperative programming and shared mutable state. To address these issues, a new approach based on reactive programming has been introduced, using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) to manage dependencies between cells. This allows for better interpretability, reproducibility, and performance by visualizing and respecting a consistent order of execution for the notebook.

Company
Hex

Date published
March 27, 2023

Author(s)
Matt David

Word count
361

Language
English

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