Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Notebooks are now commonly used in digital research practices. Despite their increasing ubiquity, the characteristics, roles, and uses associated with notebooks have seldom been studied from a social science perspective. In this article, we present an overview of the available empirical work on notebooks in order to describe existing practices, typologies crafted to grasp their diversity, and their limitations when used in data analysis workflows. Following this review, which highlights a focus of studies on interactive computational notebooks specifically within data science rather than research practices in academic contexts, we discuss the role of notebooks as a vector and lever for the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles associated with open science.
DOI: 10.46298/jdmdh.13428
Institutions: Equipe de recherche de Lyon en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication, Centre de recherche sur les médiations, Connaissance, organisation et systèmes techniques, Centre Population et Développement, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique, Economic & Social Sciences, Health Systems & Medical Informatics
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405425226