Analyzing the use and reproducibility of Jupyter Notebooks using ReproduceMeGit

Jupyter Notebooks are widely used in science, industry, and education. They combine code, text, visualizations, and results, making it easy to share and publish them for reproducible research. Millions of notebooks are shared in GitHub, which currently has more than 100 million repositories. There are several best practices in writing and sharing Jupyter Notebooks to improve the reuse of Jupyter Notebooks. In this talk, we present ReproduceMeGit, which analyzes the use and reproducibility of Jupyter Notebooks available in Github repositories. It provides a wide variety of analysis on Jupyter Notebooks. It includes analysis on how users execute notebooks. It gives information on the notebooks that were successfully reproducible and the notebooks that resulted in exceptions. It offers a detailed analysis on why the notebooks failed to execute. It compares the results from the original notebook with the results from reproducing the same by ReproduceMeGit. It also provides direct access to Binder. The provenance information with the execution history can also be downloaded through ReproduceMeGit. It makes all of these features available through a user-friendly interface.

• Important Links

  • GitHub Source Code: https://github.com/fusion-jena/ReproduceMeGit
  • Demo: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12084393.v1

• Who is this presentation for?

  • Anyone who uses Jupyter Notebooks for sharing and publication

• Prerequisite knowledge

  • Familiarity with Jupyter Notebooks

• What you'll learn

  • Learn how Jupyter Notebooks are used, shared, and published by different users.
  • Learn the problems that exist in the reuse and reproduction of Jupyter Notebooks that are publicly available and how to improve the quality for publishing notebooks in public repositories

• Key Takeaways

  • ReproduceMeGit provides a way to analyze the use and reproducibility of Jupyter Notebooks
  • It gives an overview of the problems that exist in the reuse of Notebooks that are publicly shared and how to improve their quality