Get Started with Google Colab

Lesson 5/20 | Study Time: 5 Min

One of the popular toolkits that data scientists use to run their Python scripts is an interactive notebook. There are various ways in which you can setup an interactive notebook. In this module, we will learn one them, i.e., how to setup and use Google Colab.

What are Interactive Notebooks?
We are humans and always need user-friendly applications. Notebooks are typically used by data scientists for quick exploration tasks and easy-to-use interactive data science environments.

Google Colab - Online Environment to Run Python Code

Google colab is the simplest way to setup an interactive notebook environment to perform your data science tasks.
The environment offers you up to 12 GB RAM/GPU etc for free and 100 GB storage.

  • You don’t need to worry about installing a bulky python application on your laptop/computer

Sign up here: https://colab.google

Let's get our hands dirty shall we?

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