cognitive psychology. PhD 
The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from #JupyterCon http://willcrichton.net/notes/lessons-from-jupytercon/ …
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One question that I'm interested in is how do you integrate notebooks into a development world with version control and code review. Diffable notebooks?
Best we can do today is strip outputs before committing (see: http://timstaley.co.uk/posts/making-git-and-jupyter-notebooks-play-nice/ …). The challenge is that Jupyter's cell abstraction doesn't cleanly match text file abstraction expected by git et al.
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You could always flatten a notebook into a text file and version control that, but there's logistical issues (mapping from derived file to source) and conceptual issues (do we want diffs to span cells?).
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Arguably this is also an artifact of VCS design. You can't version notebooks for the same reason you can't version Photoshop files, Unity scenes, PDFs--no way to extend VCS with domain-specific structures. Can't capture "these cells swapped" as a 1-byte diff, only "JSON changed."
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