Installing Jupyter Notebook

Setting up Jupyter Notebook

Jupyter is a non-profit, open-source project that offers various tools and solutions. This course will utilize Jupyter Notebook for documentation and code editing all within your browser.

Creating a Virtual Environment

You can create a new virtual environment inside of any directory of your choice. However, for this class it would be wise to create it inside of the root directory of your data-analysis-projects directory.

1. Navigate to your data-analysis-projects directory and run the following command:

   # -m (module) 
   # venv (venv module) 
   # venv (directory name - think of this last piece as a variable, you can name it anything, venv is a typical naming convention)
   python -m venv venv

python3 -m venv venv

The above command will create a virtual environment called venv using the venv module.

Activating the Environment

1. While inside of the directory that you installed your virtual environment you can run the following command to activate it:

   source venv/bin/activate

Source is a built-in shell command that will execute any file provided as an argument. In this particular scenario we are sourcing the activate script located within bin directory that contains executable files.

Once you have activated your virtual enviroment, the following commands will install Jupyter Notebook within it:

pip install notebook

pip3 install notebook

python3 -m pip --version

Start the App Server

Open Jupyter Notebook with the following command:

jupyter notebook

Verification

The running application will look similar to the image below: