US Patent 11593102 Managing sharable cell-based analytical notebooks

In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises accessing a computer memory comprising a shareable cell-based computation notebook comprising: notebook metadata specifying a kernel for execution, and a computational cell comprising cell metadata, a source code reference, and an output reference, wherein the cell metadata identifies a particular version of source code of a function that defines an input dataset, a transformation, and one or more variables that are to be associated with output data that is to be generated as a result of executing the particular version of the source code; updating the source code reference to identify a first storage location that is to contain the particular version of the source code of the function; and updating the output reference to identify a second storage location that is to contain the output data that is to be generated as a result of executing the particular version of the source code identified in the cell metadata using the kernel specified in the notebook metadata, wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.