Published Apr 26, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT David has been lifelong fan of technology who loves putting his passion into words. A journalist by training, he discovered the power of Unix-like operating systems when learning how to edit video on macOS, back when it was still called Mac OS X, in the mid-2000s. A lover of retrocomputing, he appreciates the vast history of Unix that Linux continues today.  David holds a BA in communication from California State University, East Bay. His writing has appeared in Techopedia, TMCnet , The Motley Fool blog network, and HTG's sister publication MUO , among others. Lots of people will use an IDE like VS Code or a regular editor like Vim, but for my work in data science and statistics, I need something different. Here's why I use IPython and Jupyter notebooks for exploring datasets. Exploratory programming IPython and Jupyter let you explore data IPython and Jupyter offer something different than the standard scripting or IDE workflow. They're interactive programming tools.…