Does papermill allow user to input multiple parameters and combine selected cells as an output?

[xiaoyaoyang]

Maybe this is not the perfect use case for the Papermill. The idea is similar to parameters tuning, where we would like to input a set of parameters and out put set of result.. what is the best practice for papermill regarding this?

[casperdcl]

do you mean using --prepare-only / --prepare-execute?

[xiaoyaoyang]

@casperdcl Thanks for the reply, I don't think so though.. I read the docs it says

Flag for outputting the notebook without execution, but with parameters applied. Can you kindly explain what it means..? it will just insert the inject-param cell and output the notebook?

Let's say I have 20 potential parameters, and for each parameters I would like to generate results (in this case, would be notebook since I don't think papermill could output other format). Next, I would need to go to those 20 notebooks (each one contains charts, results, validations etc) and figure out which one is the best (thus choose the parameter).

Question: is there a way to combine 20 notebook results with papermill? is this a good use case for papermill?

[MSeal]

I'm not sure I follow the questions perfectly, but you may be describing executing 20 notebooks with papermill and then wanting to evaluate the results. In that case I'd suggest looking into https://github.com/nteract/scrapbook to programatically generate outcomes you can compare. Then you could save a best-fit result for each parameterization and evaluate how the runs compare.