From the course: Exploring Data Science with .NET using Polyglot Notebooks & ML.NET

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Markdown cells

Markdown cells

- [Instructor] One of the key strengths of Polyglot Notebooks is the ability to mix together Code and Markdown Cells together. The Code cells give you rich and interactive executable code that the user can tweak and manipulate and understand as they're running it. Not all of your code has to be in the same cell. You can create cells with lots and lots of code, but you can distribute code throughout different cells in your notebook. And you can intersperse different Markdown Cells to add rich documentation alongside your Code. This can include rich formatting like bold, and italics, and images, and headings and subheadings, and hyperlinks, and things like that. So, the standard GitHub Flavored Markdown is applicable here. So, let's see this in action by clicking Add Markdown Cell. And notice how we don't see the language selection in the lower right of the cell. Here we see the markdown notation saying that this is a Markdown Cell. If we wanted to switch it to a Code cell, we can click…

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