Working in Jupyter

Write something about working in Jupyter Lab and/or Notebooks.

Run a notebook remotely

You can process and run a remote notebook from a current notebook with the magic run command. The output of the remote workbook will be put into your current one.

For example, I sometimes separate the download/clean functions of a project from the analysis functions. This way, when working on the analysis you don't have to re-download the data each time you re-run the notebook, unless you want to.

So, given you have two notebooks:

• 01_download.ipynb
• 02_analyze.ipynb

The second notebook at "run" the first one, if you need to. Put this at the top of the second notebook and then comment/uncomment as needed:

%run 01_download.ipynb

Run a notebook from the command line

You can also execute notebooks using nbconvert to run them from the command line. Doing this will create a copy of your notebook called 01_download.nbconvert.ipynb

$ jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute 01_download.ipynb

HOWEVER: it does not work if you have the run command in a notebook as outlined above.

Thanks to Ben Welsh for outlining these methods.