To further its commitment to open-source, IBM is releasing Elyra. Elyra is a set of open-source extensions for AI for Jupyter Notebooks, a browser-based IDE that allows developers to write and share code online. The initial release offers a Notebooks Pipelines visual editor, the ability to run notebooks in batches, hybrid runtime support, Python script … continue reading
Founded 10 years ago by a group of MIT scientists, Massachusetts-based biotech firm Ginkgo Bioworks has found great success in leveraging a number of open-source technologies to speed up and automate a wide variety of synthetic biology laboratory tasks. The organization’s main focus is the genetic engineering of compound-producing bacteria for a range of industrial … continue reading
The Python graph library, plotly.py has reached version 3.0.0, which the team describes as its largest release so far. Plotly.py 3.0.0 adds a new Jupyter widget class that is made specifically for Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab environments. This release also adds a set of imperative methods that can be used to manipulate and explore figures … continue reading
The Kubernetes project has announced the creation of a new project called Kubeflow, aimed at solving some of the challenges of deploying complicated workloads. Kubeflow is designed to make it easier to use machine learning stacks on Kubernetes. Since it relies on Kubernetes to run, it can run anywhere that Kubernetes runs, making it easy … continue reading
GitHub Enterprise 2.8 is available with code review, project-management tools, and Jupyter notebook rendering, so developers and product teams can make their workflows more powerful and versatile. To help researchers with producing and sharing data on GitHub, GitHub Enterprise 2.8 adds Jupyter Notebook rendering to make it easy to capture data-driven workflows and let project-management … continue reading
IBM is launching new Bluemix services for developers. The new tools are designed to give developers an easy way to integrate data analytics and visualization into their cloud-based applications. IBM Streaming Analytics, now in open beta, provides a way for developers to visualize data. IBM dashDB, now generally available, enables information-management, analytics and business intelligence … continue reading
GitHub has announced support for notebooks from Jupyter, formerly known as IPython. Jupyter consists of interactive command shells used to create browser-based notebooks with support for code, rich text, mathematical expressions, and other media used primarily by data scientists, researchers and programmers. GitHub announced that the more than 200,000 Jupyter notebooks already on GitHub will … continue reading
