- Jupyter Notebook
- Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application. As it is web application, you can create new notebook document and access existing document using web browser.Notebook documents are combination of code, visualization and markup/text. As you can embed explaination using markup within executable codes, it will have more readability. Jupyter notebook supports Python, R and Julia. You can refer jupyter for more information.
- Anaconda
- Anaconda is an open-source distribution of programming language Python and R. This popular individual Anaconda distribution will come with bundle of data science and machine learning utilities. It is equipped with hundreds of data science packages. For more documentation about Anaconda please refer Anaconda Documentation
In this tutorial I will walk you through how to install and run jupyter in windows operating system. To install python and jupyter we need to take advantage of Acaconda3.Anaconda Distribution will take care of installing Python and Jupyter Notebook. Please follow the below steps.
Step 1 - Downloading Anaconda Distribution
- Go to this website Anaconda Individual Edition
- Scroll down almost at the end of the page, you will be able to see Ananconda Installers. Here you need to choose the installer based on your operating system. Installer will be downloaded to your local machine(normally it gets downloaded to your Downloads directory if it is Windows machine).
Step 2 - Ananconda Installation
- Double click on the installer.
- Follow the instruction appearing on the installation wizard.
Step 3 - Run Jupyter
- After installation is complete, you will be able to see below in start menu.
- Click Anaconda Prompt(ananconda3)
- change directory to your project home directory( the directory where you are planning to maintain files of your project)
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type jupyter notebook, it will open Jupyter Notebook application in web browser. If you can see below screen that means installation is successful and it is launching jupyter.
