This is another one of those “I kept googling the same thing over and over again” things that needed a post, except this time I made an issue to make a post and then started to repeatedly refer to that. TL;DR When you want to spin up an experimental environment and get it tied in to your Jupyter environment of choice (I actually quite like JupyterLab Desktop these days…), you need two steps. ...
I am a heavy user of Jupyter Notebook, both personally for wrapping my head around Open Data, professionally for analysis and reporting, and for education/presentations. So am very comfortable with just spinning up new notebooks all over the show. However, this ends up looking like this… Less than informative and impossible to work out WTF I was doing. Helpfully, there’s a way to change it. In your jupyter_notebook_config.py file (Normally in ~/.jupyter), add the following somewhere sensible ...
This post is a little different from my usual fare; Basically, there was a tweet from MATRIX NI that caught my eye; the latest Office of National Statistics report on Internet Use in the UK. @MATRIX_NI @ONS And the tables show Northern Ireland being around 7% behind the Avg and 2% behind the next-worst-region... — Andrew Bolster (@Bolster) May 22, 2015 Basically, NI “lost”. So I thought it was a good opportunity to play around with the data a little bit instead of my usual stuff. ...