If you want to add more interactivity to a Jupyter Notebook, one way to do this is with the ipywidgets add-on. With ipywidgets, cells can generate basic GUI controls like sliders or input boxes.

In this video from the Blue Waters Symposium, Roland Haas from NCSA presents: Tutorial: How to use Jupyter Notebooks. "Jupyter notebooks provide a web-based interface to Python, R, Julia and other ...