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Rick Lamers explains why Jupyter Notebooks played an important role in the rise in popularity of Data Science and why they are its future. He explains why he decided to build Orchest to leverage and further contribute to its success. He says the benefits of the open source project have been instrumental to the rise of Jupterbooks' rise in data science. The value of tools lies in making this as frictionless as possible. The iterative and experimental nature of data science makes it fundamentally different from regular software engineering.