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I'm not an academic, but a physicist working in R&D at a company. So my "papers" are only for internal consumption, and not earth shattering anyway. My colleagues and I are using Jupyter extensively. My observation, from seeing papers that have been written in Jupyter, and observing how people work, is that Jupyter will first gain traction in disciplines that are already computation-heavy, and where open software is closer to the front end of the data pipeline. For instance in my case, I develop measurement instruments, so everything I make is computerized, by me or my colleagues. While "raw data" may be in the form of things like voltages, they are almost immediately turned into a Python friendly data format by code that I wrote myself. So I'm up to my armpits in data and code just to get my experiments even barely working in the first place. I have a computer with coding tools literally at every bench in the lab. Jupyter is my lab notebook, and often my "report" is just the same notebook, dressed up with some readable commentary. Now, contrast that with somebody like a synthetic bench chemist. The data that they get may be in computer readable form, but they rarely do any coding during the course of a project. For analysis, they're satisfied with the computations rolled into their instrument software, or Excel. And a fair amount of their analysis is in the form of explaining their way through an argument that connects data from disparate measurement techniques, using pictures and graphs. They don't program. The ones who can program have gone into software development. The ones who are using Jupyter are motivated to use it, as an end unto itself. Bringing that stuff together in Jupyter wouldn't help much. Many of their journals do require submission of raw data. This is similar to questions about why so many people use Excel. I think you have to actually immerse yourself in the specific work environment an observe or even experience what people are experiencing, what they're actually studying, how they think, and so forth. There's a certain Chesterton's Fence aspect to discussions that start with the premise that some widespread activity is hopelessly broken beyond repair and must be immediately abolished. |