Supporting research and teaching in social sciences with computational notebooks

EDINA, an innovation unit within Information Services Group of The University of Edinburgh are providers of online services to the UK HE sector. It's flagship Digimap service is used by over 120 universities the length and breadth of the UK. This lightning talk will introduce EDINA's newest service Noteable, providing exemplars from real-life uses of EDINA's Noteable service showing how computational notebooks can provide a low-barrier entry point to learning coding skills, ensuring reproducibility in data analysis for social sciences. Also shared will be the innovative use of APIs from within notebooks to access Large Language Models thus enabling chat-like interactions with social science datasets.