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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Computational notebook?

Definition 15.1 Research, Data and Risk Platforms · Chapter 15 — The Research Environment

A computational notebook is a document of cells — code, text and the outputs the code produced — run one cell at a time against a live interpreter (the kernel), in any order the user chooses; Jupyter’s format stores it as JSON, with each code cell’s source, its saved outputs and the kernel’s execution counter when it last ran (an integer, or null if it never ran).

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