Happy New Year! Let’s start off 2016 by learning something new: Jupyter Notebooks , formerly known as IPython Notebooks. A Jupyter notebook is an interactive document that incorporates text, math, graphics, and code. It can be viewed in a Web browser. Unlike most documents, however, you can modify and execute the code inside the document. In this sense, a Jupyter notebook is similar to a session in Mathematica or Maple. The difference is that the interpreter running behind the scenes is not Mathematica or Maple. Jupyter notebooks were designed to run Ju lia, Pyt hon, and R , but they support over 40 languages at present. The best way to learn about Jupyter notebooks is to take a look at one. This notebook is a simple example from a greenhorn, but you can find many more on the Web. Introduction.ipynb Click on the link to view the notebook. You can download the notebook using the Save icon at the upper right corner of the notebook Web page. You can then op...