What Is An ipynb File?
Blog post from Roboflow
Jupyter Notebook files, with the extension ipynb, are essential in fields like computer vision, data science, and machine learning, as they encapsulate code, comments, and outputs in a JSON structure. These files are commonly used for interactive data analysis and can be opened with several specialized notebook software tools, including Jupyter Notebook, Google Colab, and Kaggle, with Jupyter being the original developer of the format. To access an ipynb file in Jupyter Notebook, users must install the software and run a "notebook server" locally, while Google Colab allows users to simply upload and view the files online. The Roboflow Notebooks repository offers over 40 computer vision-focused notebooks, providing tutorials on training and deploying advanced models like YOLOv10, Florence-2, and SAM-2, which can be easily accessed via Google Colab links.