If you'd like to follow along, you should first install Python 2.7. (note if you have Mac OS X, Python should come with your computer already)
You have several options:
- The Anaconda Installation This will automatically install python, as well as much of the data analysis libraries we'll use.
- Normal Python Installation Then follow the below steps:
- Install pip, a program that manages the Python libraries you install.
- Install libraries numpy, scipy, and matplotlib, by running in the terminal:
1.
pip install numpy
2.pip install scipy
3.pip install matplotlib
Then, install Jupyter Notebook. If you use pip, run pip2, not pip3.
Then, download the directory available at https://github.com/lujonathanh/JupyterTutorial.
Unzip this to a folder from which you'd like to run your code, like tutorial
.
Then, open up your terminal and change directories into the JupyterTutorial folder. If your folder is named tutorial
, then switch into tutorial/JupyterTutorial
.
Then, from the command line, run the command: jupyter notebook
If you are using anaconda, run: jupyter-notebook
instead.