🚀 Big news for #JupyterGIS users!

Two powerful new features are now live:
✅ Built-in STAC catalog browser - Seamlessly explore geospatial datasets.
✅ Story Maps editor - Create and share interactive story maps directly from Jupyter.

Discover, analyze, and tell stories with geospatial data - all in one place.
📖 Learn more on the Jupyter Blog: https://blog.jupyter.org/expanding-geospatial-workflows-in-jupytergis-stac-browsing-and-story-maps-7fb98eece82e
🌍 Try it live in your browser: https://notebook.link/@quantstack/earthquakes-story-map

#JupyterLite Officially Joins Project Jupyter!

🌟 JupyterLite, the lightweight, browser-based Jupyter distribution, has officially become part of Project Jupyter. This is a major milestone for accessible, no-installation-required data science and education.

With JupyterLite, you can run Jupyter notebooks directly in your browser - no server, and no setup. Whether you're teaching, prototyping, or collaborating, JupyterLite makes interactive computing more scalable and more accessible than ever, anywhere in the world, in Python, R, GNU Octave, and even C++.

This milestone is the result of years of hard work and innovation. A huge shoutout to the incredible team at QuantStack - Jérémy Tuloup, Martin Renou, Thorsten Beier, Isabel Paredes, Ian Thomas, Anutosh Bhat, and Johan Mabille - as well as community contributors Nick Bollweg and Agriya Khetarpal.

As part of Project Jupyter, JupyterLite will benefit from deeper collaboration, innovation, and growth. The future of interactive computing is brighter than ever! This journey wouldn’t have been possible without the support of QuantStack, Bloomberg, the Gates Foundation, and the Jupyter community.

🔗 Read the full announcement here: https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlite-officially-joins-project-jupyter-77df24c8db80

A viewer for Parquet, SQLite, and Avro files in JupyterLab.
Check out our new JupyterLab extension: Arbalister. 🏹
Built upon Apache Datafusion, @ProjectJupyter, and Apache Arrow, it lazily fetches rows so that you can view files larger than memory!

https://blog.jupyter.org/instantly-view-parquet-files-in-jupyterlab-with-arbalister-4799c28bbce7

Together with Nicolas Brichet at the @PyDataParis 2025 conference, we presented a vision for what AI in @ProjectJupyter can look like, with a focus on forward-looking, browser-based AI workflows.

Some of the topics we discussed:

- Agents in the browser
- Controlling JupyterLab with natural language
- AI-assisted 3D modeling
- Built-in Chrome AI and LLMs in the browser

The recording is now available on YouTube, happy watching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKeu2wA62pQ

JupyterLab 4.5 and Jupyter Notebook 7.5 are now available! 🎉

A major highlight is the enhanced scrolling behavior, which drastically improves the usability of notebooks.

These updates also come packed with new features and quality of life improvements 🎁

- Native support for audio and video playback
- Notebook and File Browser improvements
- Enhanced Debugger and Console
- New search functionality inside terminals

Check out the blog post to learn more!

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlab-4-5-and-notebook-7-5-are-available-1bcd1fa19a47

📢 Talk Announcement

"Open-source Business", by @sylvaincorlay from @QuantStack and Yann Lechelle from :probabl.

📜 Talk info: pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2025/talk/LMTCZS
📅 Schedule: pydata.org/paris2025/schedule
🎟 Tickets: pydata.org/paris2025/tickets

📢 Talk Announcement

"State of Parquet 2025: Structure, Optimizations, and Recent Innovations", by Rok Mihevc, and Raúl Cumplido from @QuantStack

📜 Talk info: pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2025/talk/MGTNHM
📅 Schedule: pydata.org/paris2025/schedule
🎟 Tickets: pydata.org/paris2025/tickets