Notes on the Code Quality Culture on Jupyter (Notebooks)

While we argued in [5, 4] that code quality needs to take context into account, there is now software that demands a really different quality culture like we would be entering another planet. Jupyter, to be precise: A “Jupyter Notebook is [a] web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.”1 It consists of text and code cells. The content of code cells is sent on demand to a Python session, executed and the output inserted below the cell. We will approach the quality of notebooks from the perspective of communicative code and design patterns.