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Kaggle vs VS Code:
a side-by-side comparison for 2023

Comparing two data science notebooks.

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Kaggle

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Explore and run machine learning code with Kaggle Notebooks, a cloud computational environment that enables reproducible and collaborative analysis.
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VS Code

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Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor. It supports working with Jupyter Notebooks natively, as well as through Python code files.
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Kaggle

VS Code

Setup

Is it managed?

Is it managed?

Fully managed (setup in minutes)
No, you must host it yourself

Can you self-host?

Can you self-host?

No, you must use a managed offering
You can self-host (setup in hours)

Features

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Jupyter-compatible
Jupyter-compatible

Programming languages

Programming languages

Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)

What kind of data sources can you connect to?

What kind of data sources can you connect to?

Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Kaggle datasets
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)

What kind of data visualization can you do?

What kind of data visualization can you do?

Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)

Reactivity

Reactivity

No reactivity, you decide the execution order
No reactivity, you decide the execution order

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling

Limited scheduling capabilities
Notebook scheduling with additional tools

Management

Reproducibility

Reproducibility

Environments are reproducible by default
There is no support for reproducibility

Version history

Version history

Version history is built in
File-based (use Git)

Collaborative editing

Collaborative editing

No support for collaborative editors
File-based (use Git)

Comments

Comments

Comment on a notebook as a whole
File-based (use GitHub)

Notebook organization

Notebook organization

View notebooks in a list
File-based

Licensing

License

License

Proprietary
Open-source (MIT)

Price

Price

Free
Free

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