Beaker Alternatives

    Beaker is described as 'The Beaker Notebook is a new open source tool for research and data science. It's advanced UI allows you to focus on your data and your science, instead of getting frustrated by your tool. We designed it to be polyglot from the ground up'. There are more than 10 alternatives to Beaker for a variety of platforms, including Online / Web-based, Windows, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted solutions. The best alternative is Jupyter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Beaker are IPython (Free, Open Source), nteract (Free, Open Source), Observable Notebooks (Free) and µCalc (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Oct 21, 2021
    1. The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text.

    2. IPython

      • Free • Open Source
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      IPython is an interactive shell for the Python programming language that offers enhanced introspection, additional shell syntax, syntax highlighting, tab completion and rich history. It is a component of the SciPy package.
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    4. nteract

      • Free • Open Source
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      • Apache Zeppelin
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      • Jupyter
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      nteract is a desktop application that allows you to develop rich documents that contain prose, executable code (in almost any language!), and images. nteract helps you write your next code-driven story.
    5. Observable is a better way to code. Discover insights faster and communicate more effectively with interactive notebooks for data analysis, visualization, and exploration.
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    6. µCalc (mucalc) is a multi-user math web app. The math syntax is parsed in the browser by math.js. A node.js backend with socket.io is used for synchronization of sheets between multiple users.

      Discontinued

      Project stopped. The source code is archived here: https://github.com/antoineMoPa/mucalc.com

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    8. Kajero

      • Free • Open Source
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      Kajero is designed to make it really easy for anyone to create good-looking, responsive, interactive documents. Somewhat like Jupyter / iPython notebooks, but for JavaScript!

    9. iodide

      • Free • Open Source
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        Iodide is a notebook programming environment for the web. Users can make use of JavaScript, Markdown, CSS and external resources to communicate ideas comfortably and efficiently through a minimalist notebook interface.
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      • Cantor is a front-end to powerful mathematics and statistics packages. Cantor integrates them into the KDE Platform and provides a nice, worksheet-based, graphical user interface. It supports environments for KAlgebra, Lua, Maxima, R, Sage, Octave, Python, Scilab, and Qalculate!
      • Bl.ocks (pronounced “Blocks”) is a simple viewer for sharing code examples hosted on GitHub Gist. For example, if your Gist URL is: https://gist.github.com/mbostock/1353700 Replace “gist.github.com” with “bl.ocks.org” in the URL to view it: ...
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      • Polynote

        • Free • Open Source
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        Polynote is a different kind of notebook. It supports mixing multiple languages in one notebook, and sharing data between them seamlessly. It encourages reproducible notebooks with its immutable data model.
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