I am new to Jupyter. What is the purpose of dividing a notebook into different cells?
A couple of very useful reasons to separate a notebook into multiple cells (rather than simply all the code in one cell). In no particular order.
- the values of variables are saved after a cell is run. Therefore, one can run a pipeline which may take several minutes, in one cell, but then use the results in subsequent cells without re-running the pipeline. A big timesaver.
- comment using markup cells between code cells to make code more readable.
- output such as graphs and dataframes are easier, and more legible, if there is just a single output per cell.
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