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Jupyter Notebook vs Lab

Jupyter is an effiecient way to work with data in Python

The Commands

jupyter notebook # to start jupyter notebook

jupyter lab #to start jupyter lab

The Difference

Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computational environment for creating Jupyter notebook documents. It supports several languages like Python (IPython), Julia, R etc. and is largely used for data analysis, data visualization and further interactive, exploratory computing.

JupyterLab is the next-generation user interface including notebooks. It has a modular structure, where you can open several notebooks or files (e.g. HTML, Text, Markdowns etc) as tabs in the same window. It offers more of an IDE-like experience.

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