Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter Notebooks are a neat way to explore your data in an informal way versus writing full-fledged scripts.
Jupyter Notebook can be installed through the Anaconda Platform or directly as a standalone software here. Jupyter's own website has some good documentation on the notebooks and their inner-workings that you can check out. If you want to get started using Python with notebooks, we recommend using the Kaggle platform.
Kaggle is a great place to learn and use their own version of notebooks. They offer free courses that you can complete all online without having to download anything to your machine. In terms of getting started with Python and notebooks, we recommend the following courses:
Google Colaboratory (Colab for short) is Google's version of Jupyter Notebooks that work much like a Google Doc or Spreadsheet in that you can easily collaborate (hence the name) with your colleagues in real-time. They provide their own set of guides for such things as:
- Overview of Colaboratory Environment
- Advanced Functions in Colab like Interactive Forms and Interactive Widgets
- Integrating Colab with Google Drive
- Data Science with TensorFlow