Using Notebooks

You can use notebooks to explore and visualize data. This section describes how to install Jupyter notebooks and how to use the Big Data Studio notebooks in Oracle Big Data.

Notebooks are web-based platforms for data scientists. They are interactive environments for running code. They support libraries, graph analytics, and visualizations that accelerate exploring and gaining insights from data.

For Oracle Distribution including Apache Hadoop (ODH) and Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH), you have the following notebook options.

• Jupyter Notebooks only available for ODH

  You can install Jupyter on your ODH cluster nodes and access it through a browser.

• Big Data Studio Notebooks available for ODH and CDH

  When you create a cluster, Big Data Studio is installed and configured on your cluster nodes.

You can import data to your notebooks from sources such as HDFS or Spark databases and files. You can then analyze the data with interpreter environments for languages such as Python, PySpark, and Spark.