learn more at http://BeakerNotebook.com/
Literally their first example is embedding D3...
http://sharing.beakernotebook.com/gist/anonymous/e21582541d7...
Looking forward to testing it. The fact that it works with Clojure is bad ass by itself.
So far, I am coming to the conclusion that iPython is a tool for data scientists, but I am not really sure.
Then, there are IPython Notebooks, which give you the HTML, cell-based frontend for executing code.
Jupyter is the v2/generalization for both of these things - there is the Jupyter shell, which is a plugin-friendly REPL, and Jupyter notebooks, which allow you to run code across a variety of langauges. AFAIK so far, you can only run one language per Jupyter notebook (though having dug around the source code, the possibility for multiple languages on a per-cell basis is very much there).
I still find myself using IPython and Jupyter interchangably, which probably doesn't help the confusion.
In terms of who uses this stuff: IPython notebooks are very popular across academia and for lectures/talks. Check out all the cool learning material here: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes...
This is the description you're looking for: http://ipython.org/notebook.html
(Also, Hi Christian!)
Yeah, most of our curriculum uses regular old matplotlib. We only use this technique specifically in our D3 curriculum. In general I can't think of many use cases where this is actually better than just having a couple of files, aside from instructional ones.
IMHO Jupyter is actually easier to get working (even with Spark support) though.
