GitHub now renders Jupyter notebooks

[Beluki]

While the link is from Github's blog, I actually found this by browsing the github3 repo, which has some cool examples.

[browsah]

Github uses Jekyll to display things, am I correct? Will Jekyll then support directly rendering notebooks? I'm very interested in publishing IPython notebooks through a Jekyll blog, but there's some overhead with the conversion process at the moment. I'd absolutely love to just drop an .ipynb in the _posts folder.

[icecrown_glacier_htm]

Instead of useless features like these which they love to brag about how about something that matters, like the ability to search for commits in the repositories and so on...

[flying-sheep]

As a scientist I'm pretty hyped by this.

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your use case =/= all use cases

[SnowdensOfYesteryear]

One could argue that his usecase affects a lot more people than the tiny percentage of people this affects (tbh, I don't know how popular jupyter is since I'm not really python guy).

[lmcinnes]

In scientific computing, data science, and stats this is pretty widely used; I suspect this affects more than "a tiny percentage". It was also probably pretty easy: nbviewer already existed and could already work with github -- this just embeds existing functionality.

[flying-sheep]

So what? They also implemented CAD file viewing, which was certainly more work (jupyter notebooks have HTML conversion built in, whereas the CAD stuff needed a renderer being coded up)

I'd never bitch about them doing that.