Are you using interactive notebooks for your data exploration or your day-to-day programming?

What environments do you use? Was it Jupiter and now you made your way over to Jupyter Lab?

That's a great choice. But did you know there are more environments out there to choose from and to

compare? Have you heard of Callisto or iodide? How about Co-Calc or Polynote? Those are just the

tip of the iceberg. That's why I'm happy to have Sam Lau and

Philip Guo here to share their research comparing and categorizing over 60 notebook environments.

This is Talk Python, me. Episode 268 recorded June 11th, 2020.

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the show. Sam and Philip, welcome to talk Python to me.

Pleasure to be here. Same here. Yeah, nice to have you on the show, Sam. Philip, welcome back.

You've been on the show a few times. You were one of the very first guests way back when,

diving into the C Python source code internals. And then we've talked about a bunch of fun topics,

you know, coding in your golden

years and maintaining open source projects individually and things like that. It's been a lot

fun to have you on the show and nice to have you back. Yeah, it's great to be back. And yeah,

that was my first ever podcast with you. That was, I think, almost five years ago. It's good to be

back as a podcast veteran now. That's right. You know the whole deal.

And Sam, welcome to the show. Before we get to the main topic, I always like to set the stage for

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