Jupyter Notebooks
This page contains helpful tips for how to use Jupyter Notebooks as a tool for documenting your work. A more thorough guide is available as part of the official documentation .
Writing notes using Markdown
Notebooks use markdown cells for text formatting. Markdown is a markup language with a very simple syntax that makes it easy to specify headers, images, tables, equations, and more using a plain text syntax. Many of you probably already know it from GitHub (and similar services) that use it for ReadME and Wiki files.
Equations
Jupyter Notebooks allow you to write mathematical expressions using the familiar LaTeX syntax. Some different formats are available:
Inline equation: $\sum_{i=1}^N$.
Block equation:
$$
\frac{2}{3}
$$
LaTeX block equation:
$$
\begin{align}
\int_{-\infty}^\infty
\end{align}
$$Actual output:
Inline equation: $\sum_{i=1}^N$.
Block equation:
$$ \frac{2}{3} $$LaTeX block equation:
$$ \begin{align} \int_{-\infty}^\infty \end{align} $$Typography
The following commands can be used to specify the font size and style:
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
###### Heading 6
**Bold**
*Italic*
_Underscore_Actual output:
Heading 1 is hidden because it interferes with the menu of the webpage.
Heading 2
Heading 3
Heading 4
Heading 5
Heading 6
Bold
Italic
Underscore
Links and Images
[Some link](https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html)
Actual output:
image text
Tables
| Col 1 | Col 2 |
|-------|-------|
| 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 3 |Actual output:
| Col 1 | Col 2 |
|---|---|
| 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 3 |
| Col 1 | Col 2 | |-------|-------| | 0 | 1 | | 2 | 3 |