Setup

Go to Google Colab

Sign in to Google Colab if you are not already. Launch “File > New Notebook in Drive”.

Done.

If you would prefer to have a local version of the Python environment we are using, see below for setup instructions.

At home setup

To complete the exercises presented in the workshop, you may create a Python environment with the following packages:

git clone https://github.com/Sydney-Informatics-Hub/ParallelPython.git

cd ParallelPython

conda env create -f environment.yml

conda activate parallel

At the time of this workshop, the major package versions were:

dask=2022.10.0
jupyterlab=3.4.8
matplotlib-base=3.5.3
numpy=1.23.4
pandas=1.5.1
python=3.9.13
scikit-learn=1.1.2
scipy=1.9.3
seaborn=0.12.1
polars=1.3.0

Other combinations may also work.