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Jupyter Notebook vs Observable:
a side-by-side comparison for 2026

Comparing two data science notebooks.

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Jupyter Notebook

Jupyter Notebook (formerly IPython Notebook) is the classic web-based interactive computing environment for creating notebook documents. It provides a simple, streamlined interface focused on a single document workflow.
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Observable

Make sense of the world with data, together. Explore, visualize, and analyze data. Collaborate with the community. Learn and be inspired. Share insights with the world.
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