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Computational notebooks are the primary coding tools for data scientists, but their code quality remains understudied and often poor. Given the importance of maintainability and reusability, enhancing code understandability is essential.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mojtaba Mostafavi Ghahfarokhi , Alireza Asadi , Arash Asgari , Bardia Mohammadi , Abbas Heydarnoori , Masih Beigi Rizi

AI-powered code assistants, such as Copilot, are quickly becoming a ubiquitous component of contemporary coding contexts. Among these environments, computational notebooks, such as Jupyter, are of particular interest as they provide rich…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Andrew M. McNutt , Chenglong Wang , Robert A. DeLine , Steven M. Drucker

As scientific work becomes more computational and data intensive, research processes and results become more difficult to interpret and reproduce. In this poster, we show how the Jupyter notebook, a tool originally designed as a free…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Bernadette M. Boscoe , Irene V. Pasquetto , Milena S. Golshan , Christine L. Borgman

Computational notebooks -- such as Jupyter or Colab -- combine text and data analysis code. They have become ubiquitous in the world of data science and exploratory data analysis. Since these notebooks present a different programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Derek Robinson , Neil A. Ernst , Enrique Larios Vargas , Margaret-Anne D. Storey

Jupyter Notebook is a popular tool among data analysts and scientists for working with data. It provides a way to combine code, documentation, and visualizations in a single, interactive environment, facilitating code reuse. While code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Mingke Yang , Yuming Zhou , Bixin Li , Yutian Tang

Data exploration is an important aspect of the workflow of mixed-methods researchers, who conduct both qualitative and quantitative analysis. However, there currently exists few tools that adequately support both types of analysis…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Jiawen Stefanie Zhu , Zibo Zhang , Jian Zhao

In software engineering, numerous studies have focused on the analysis of fine-grained logs, leading to significant innovations in areas such as refactoring, security, and code completion. However, no similar studies have been conducted for…

It is important for researchers to understand precisely how data scientists turn raw data into insights, including typical programming patterns, workflow, and methodology. This paper contributes a novel system, called DataInquirer, that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jinjin Zhao , Avidgor Gal , Sanjay Krishnan

In this paper, we detail the integration of Python data analysis into a first-year physics laboratory course, a task accomplished without significant alterations to the existing course structure. We introduced tailored laboratory…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-05-28 Eugenio Tufino , Stefano Oss , Micol Alemani

The development of data science expertise requires tacit, process-oriented skills that are difficult to teach directly. This study addresses the resulting challenge of empirically understanding how the problem-solving processes of experts…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Manuel Valle Torre , Marcus Specht , Catharine Oertel

Jupyter notebooks allow to bundle executable code with its documentation and output in one interactive environment, and they represent a popular mechanism to document and share computational workflows, including for research publications.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Sheeba Samuel , Daniel Mietchen

Computational notebooks are widely used for data analysis. Their interleaved displays of code and execution results (e.g., visualizations) are welcomed since they enable iterative analysis and preserve the exploration process. However, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Haotian Li , Lu Ying , Haidong Zhang , Yingcai Wu , Huamin Qu , Yun Wang

Keeping abreast of current trends, technologies, and best practices in visualization and data analysis is becoming increasingly difficult, especially for fledgling data scientists. In this paper, we propose Lodestar, an interactive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Deepthi Raghunandan , Zhe Cui , Kartik Krishnan , Segen Tirfe , Shenzhi Shi , Tejaswi Darshan Shrestha , Leilani Battle , Niklas Elmqvist

Using computational notebooks (e.g., Jupyter Notebook), data scientists rationalize their exploratory data analysis (EDA) based on their prior experience and external knowledge such as online examples. For novices or data scientists who…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Xingjun Li , Yizhi Zhang , Justin Leung , Chengnian Sun , Jian Zhao

The quality of scientific code is a critical concern for the research community. Poorly written code can result in irreproducible results, incorrect findings, and slower scientific progress. In this study, we evaluate scientific code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shun Kashiwa , Ayla Kurdak , Savitha Ravi , Ridhi Srikanth , Angel Thakur , Sonia Chandra , Jonathan Truong , Michael Coblenz

At present, code recommendation tools have gained greater importance to many software developers in various areas of expertise. Having code recommendation tools has enabled better productivity and performance in developing the code in…

Computational notebooks, which integrate code, documentation, tags, and visualizations into a single document, have become increasingly popular for data analysis tasks. With the advent of immersive technologies, these notebooks have evolved…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sungwon In , Ayush Roy , Eric Krokos , Kirsten Whitley , Chris North , Yalong Yang

Researchers and practitioners across many disciplines have recently adopted computational notebooks to develop, document, and share their scientific workflows - and the GIS community is no exception. This chapter introduces computational…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Geoff Boeing , Dani Arribas-Bel

Real-time collaborative editing in computational notebooks can improve the efficiency of teamwork for data scientists. However, working together through synchronous editing of notebooks introduces new challenges. Data scientists may…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-09 April Yi Wang , Zihan Wu , Christopher Brooks , Steve Oney

The trend toward open science increases the pressure on authors to provide access to the source code and data they used to compute the results reported in their scientific papers. Since sharing materials reproducibly is challenging, several…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Markus Konkol , Daniel Nüst , Laura Goulier