From the course: Data Science Reporting with Quarto for Python

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Why would I move from Jupyter to Quarto?

Why would I move from Jupyter to Quarto?

- [Instructor] Jupyter is a notebook interface for Python. Let's show you what that means over in GitHub Codespaces. We've got the jupyter - notebook.ipnyb file open from the 01_03b folder. And this is a Jupyter notebook if you've never seen one before. It allows us to combine an explanatory text with codes and output. And what's really nice about it is, as we scroll through the document, it becomes clear that we're working with a Palmer Penguins dataset and what we're going to do is use KMeans clustering to attempt to cluster the penguins into different islands. This is called literate programming and it's pretty awesome. But let's get into the disadvantages of Jupyter. I have another Jupyter notebook here, large notebook. If we attempt to open this notebook, we get a warning telling us it's a really large file and it could be slow to work with. That is a fundamental difference between Jupyter and Quarto. With notebooks, the input and the output are stored in the same file. Whereas…

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