What is Hydrogen?

Hydrogen is an open-source, Atom-based text editor created specifically for data science and machine learning workflows. It allows users to write and execute code interactively via language-specific kernels, eliminating the need to constantly switch between separate applications.

As an Atom package, Hydrogen provides all the benefits of the hackable Atom editor such as cross-platform availability, a flexible interface with themes and customization, and the ability to install thousands of other useful packages. Additionally, Hydrogen tightly integrates with Jupyter notebooks and enables users to easily open, edit, run, and save .ipynb files.

Some of the key features and capabilities provided by Hydrogen include:

• Interactive coding in Python, R, JavaScript, Julia, and other languages via kernels
• Real-time code execution and rich output including text, tables, plots, images, etc.
• Support for launching local computing sessions
• Autocomplete and tooltips via language-specific kernel
• Visualization of plots, images, and video output
• Easy import/export of Jupyter notebooks
• Management of multiple Jupyter kernels in one editor
• Real-time collaboration when used with Atom Teletype

In summary, if you do any kind of data analysis, statistics, machine learning, or other technical computing work, Hydrogen brings an interactive coding experience right into the flexible Atom text editor. It eliminates context switching and streamlines workflows in data science.

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