Data-driven figures in Authorea
If you hover on the figure you will notice a Launch IPython button. Click it and then select the file open-access-costs-notebook.ipynb. That will spin a dedicated virtual machine for you which will let you visualize AND run the code associated with the figure. The entire workbench that the author used to generate the image (the visualization libraries, the mathematical packages, the data, the commands and functions called upon the data) are available for your peruse. Cool, no? This is why we integrated Authorea with the IPython Notebook, a web-based interactive computational environment where you can combine code execution, text, mathematics, plots, etc.

How can I include IPython Notebooks in own Authorea documents?

  • Get your work done in an IPython Notebook. The main IPython site has a lot of documentation to guide you through installation and getting started with some interesting notebooks.
  • Once you have generated a figure that you want to include in your paper, add it to your Authorea paper (drag and drop it).
  • Click on the folder icon and browse to the figure folder which contains the image. For example, the image above is in figures/open-access-costs. In that folder, upload the Ipython notebook (.ipynb file).
  • Go back to the main view and your figure should have a "Launch IPython" link.
  • Done! Share your science with the world!

Conclusion
We highly recommend the Catalyst Grant Program for early stage startups and we thank Digital Science for giving us the opportunity to work with them these past 6 months.