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Why Jupyter Notebooks Online Are Better

In this blog post, we will delve into why online Jupyter notebooks provide a significant upgrade over their local counterparts, and how Saturn Cloud can elevate your online Jupyter experience.
By Saturn Cloud | | Data Science & ML

Jupyter notebooks have become an indispensable tool in our daily work, offering an excellent platform for code, text, and visuals. But there’s an even better way to harness the power of these notebooks - by taking them online.

In this blog post, we’re diving into why online Jupyter notebooks provide a significant upgrade over their local counterparts, and how Saturn Cloud can elevate your online Jupyter experience.

What is Jupyter?

First, a quick recap. Jupyter notebooks are open-source tools that allow us to create and share documents that contain live code, visualizations, and narrative text. Named for the programming languages Julia, Python, and R, Jupyter supports many other languages as well. Their ability to run code in individual cells, which can be executed separately, simplifies debugging and enhances our understanding of the code. Additionally, markdown cells allow us to annotate our work, embed images, or links, making the notebook a comprehensive record of our data analysis process.

Online Jupyter Notebooks: The Benefits

Firstly, online Jupyter notebooks are accessible with an internet connection, so there’s no need for specific local environments or transferring notebooks between devices. Collaboration becomes more straightforward, as they allow multiple users to access and edit the same notebook. Online platforms also offer scalable resources to match the complexity of your tasks - a feature often limited when locally working. Finally, version control and automatic backups come standard with online notebooks, ensuring your work is both safe and tracked.

Motivation for Online Jupyter Notebooks

Local Jupyter notebooks, while powerful, come with their own set of issues. Large datasets or complex computations can lead to slow execution times or even crashes. Local notebooks also require manual setup and maintenance, which can be both time-consuming.

Moving Jupyter notebooks online offers a solution to these problems. You can easily scale up processing power when you need to handle larger datasets. Online platforms also take care setup and maintenance, so you can focus on what you do best - exploring data and deriving insights.

Moreover, version control and collaboration can be tricky with local Jupyter notebooks. Without a systematic approach, managing different versions of notebooks can get messy fast, especially when working in a team. Online Jupyter notebooks come with integrated version control, making it easy to track changes and collaborate with others. No more emailing notebooks back and forth or manually merging changes.

How to Get Online Jupyter Notebooks

Saturn Cloud is a popular platform for Jupyter notebooks online. It’s built with an array of features that enhance your Jupyter online experience.

All you need to do is sign up and click New Python Server to begin using Jupyter online.

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One of the key advantages of Saturn Cloud is its scalability and collaboration tools. It provides resources that can be adjusted to suit your needs, from handling small data tasks to processing large-scale datasets. It also suits teams that need to share Jupyter notebooks and resources.

Saturn Cloud also supports more than just Jupyter: you can work with multiple programming languages online such as R and Julia, in addition to Python. It also supports VSCode, PyCharm and SSH connections. It is also used for its ability to run jobs, deployments, visualizations and dashboard tools

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You can use all of these resources on Saturn Cloud free on the Hosted product. Each account receives 30 hours of free computation each month. Upgrading is easy as well.

Saturn Cloud for business and teams

There are two offerings by Saturn Cloud that are popular with businesses and teams.

Saturn Cloud Hosted Orgs is a hosted solution that lets teams start right away, hosting the code and data on Saturn Cloud. This solution is preferred by academic teams and small companies.

Saturn Cloud Enterprise is a managed solution where Saturn Cloud installs in your virtual private cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), maintaining secure connection and storage of your data and code. This solution is the preferred choice by IT teams with strict security protocols.

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