From the course: Introducing Jupyter
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Cell types
- [Male Instructor] The Jupyter Notebook has a few different types of cells, and there is two that we'll primarily be concerned with in this course. The first type is a code cell. The input you give a code cell is interpreted by the kernel. In this course, I'm using a Python 3 kernel, so it's very similar to running a Python shell. The second type of cell is something a little bit different. It's a markdown cell. Jupyter uses GitHub-flavored markdown. There are a few different flavors of markdown out there, but generally there is enough similarity that if you are familiar with markdown, you should have no problem. We have a dataset of weather-related measurements from lake pond array. I have loaded up the year of February, but I'm going to show, just for a particular month in February, how frequently measurements are being taken. I'll start off with a heading in a markdown cell and I'll underline it. Now I'll add in a few details about the steps required. Okay, step one, let's take a…
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