IPython Notebook is an open-source, web-based interactive computing environment which enables the data scientist to build documents that combine code, text, formulas, visualizations and more to create interactive, documentable, and shareable reports.
Brian Granger introduces the IPython Notebook, an open-source, web-based interactive computing environment for Python and other languages. By enabling the data scientist to build documents that combine code, text, formulas, visualizations, images and video the Notebook creates a foundation for data science that is interactive, repeatable, documented and sharable.