If anyone is interested in working on this (or other exciting Spark related things) @ IBM please reach out to me ( my HN username with the letter k removed at us.ibm.com )
I did it following a combination of these two guide:
http://ramhiser.com/2015/02/01/configuring-ipython-notebook-...
http://thepowerofdata.io/configuring-jupyteripython-notebook...
Edit, if this is interesting then... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10496385