Like a (J)BOSS

The Open Education movement has gained traction through the use of the open source platform Jupyter Book to create, publish, and share interactive textbooks. Its successor, Jupyter Book 2 focuses on fully reproducible scientific publishing by turning Jupyter Notebooks - interactive documents with markdown narratives, live code, LaTeX supported equations, and interactive visualizations - into polished scientific articles using publisher-specific templates. These templates enable rendering presentations, making knowledge sharing at conferences based on scientific work straightforward and easy.

The Jupyter Book integration streamlines research workflows: analysis, writing, and publication happen in a single environment. Data and code cells can be accessed in the main document but are hidden in the pdf: showing only the desired output (e.g., graphs) in the final article (without additional work). The reproducibility of simulation models, hardware testing results, or embedded system configurations - as required in engineering disciplines – adding to the complexity of paper prints but are eased with an interactive output in Jupyter Book. The git integration makes it possible to push with one click all materials to most data repositories. Jupyter Book can boost open science because virtually no additional steps are required to make the manuscript and underlying data available.

In this workshop we apply the JBOSS workflow to create your own Jupyter Book for scientific purposes. Within 5 minutes you’ll have a working website which can be converted – with a single line of code – to a publishable pdf. We aim to enable participants to use Jupyter Book through hands-on experience, and develop a further understanding of its capabilities and potential applications in research.

Host: Freek Pols