JupyterLab

Web-based notebooks for code, data and narrative

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JupyterLab is the open-source notebook environment from Project Jupyter. It mixes live code, equations, charts and text in one document and supports Python, R, Julia and dozens of other languages.

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Status	Open source
Licence	BSD-3-Clause
Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux, Web
Category	Data science & workflows
Website	jupyter.org
Source	GitHub

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