Notebooks are used by data scientists and data analysts to quickly explore the scenario and take actions based on the graphical insights. It offers several advantages over any local scripts or tools. When properly set up by the organization, a notebook offers direct connections to all necessary sources of data, without additional effort from the user.
A notebook segments a computation in individual steps called paragraphs. These paragraphs contain an input and an output section. Each paragraph executes separately and modifies the global state of the notebook.