Tidynote: Always-Clear Notebook Authoring
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| author | Huang, Ruanqianqian Hempel, Brian Cao, Yining Hollan, James D. Xia, Haijun Lerner, Sorin |
| author_facet | Huang, Ruanqianqian Hempel, Brian Cao, Yining Hollan, James D. Xia, Haijun Lerner, Sorin |
| contents | Recent work identified clarity as one of the top quality attributes that notebook users value, but notebooks lack support for maintaining clarity throughout the exploratory phases of the notebook authoring workflow. We propose always-clear notebook authoring that supports both clarity and exploration, and present a Jupyter implementation called Tidynote. The key to Tidynote is three-fold: (1) a scratchpad sidebar to facilitate exploration, (2) cells movable between the notebook and the scratchpad to maintain organization, and (3) linear execution with state forks to clarify program state. An exploratory study (N=13) of open-ended data analysis tasks shows that Tidynote features holistically promote clarity throughout a notebook's lifecycle, support realistic notebook tasks, and enable novel strategies for notebook clarity. These results suggest that Tidynote supports maintaining clarity throughout the entirety of notebook authoring. |
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| spellingShingle | Tidynote: Always-Clear Notebook Authoring Huang, Ruanqianqian Hempel, Brian Cao, Yining Hollan, James D. Xia, Haijun Lerner, Sorin Human-Computer Interaction Recent work identified clarity as one of the top quality attributes that notebook users value, but notebooks lack support for maintaining clarity throughout the exploratory phases of the notebook authoring workflow. We propose always-clear notebook authoring that supports both clarity and exploration, and present a Jupyter implementation called Tidynote. The key to Tidynote is three-fold: (1) a scratchpad sidebar to facilitate exploration, (2) cells movable between the notebook and the scratchpad to maintain organization, and (3) linear execution with state forks to clarify program state. An exploratory study (N=13) of open-ended data analysis tasks shows that Tidynote features holistically promote clarity throughout a notebook's lifecycle, support realistic notebook tasks, and enable novel strategies for notebook clarity. These results suggest that Tidynote supports maintaining clarity throughout the entirety of notebook authoring. |
| title | Tidynote: Always-Clear Notebook Authoring |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23490 |