Intro to Jupyter Notebooks

Jupyter Notebooks are an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text.

In this workshop we will use IBM Watson Studio to run various notebooks. For this you will need an IBM Cloud account. The following steps will show you how sign up and get started.

There are three labs in this workshop where you will learn :

• Lab 1 : Intro to Pandas
• Lab 2 : Intro to PixieDust
• Lab 3 : Intro to Predictive Modeling with Watson Machine Learning

Before You Get Started

• Sign up for an IBM Cloud account

• When you are signed up click Create Resource at the top of the Resources page. You can find the resources under the hamburger menu at the top left:

• Search for Watson Studio and click on the tile:

• Select the Lite plan and click Create.
• Go back to the Resources list and click on your Watson Studio service that you find under Services and then click Get Started.

Working with Watson Studio

Create a new Project

• You should now be in Watson Studio.
• Create a new project by clicking on Get Started and New Project, or Create Project
• Give your Project a name.
• Select an Object Storage from the drop-down menu or create a new one for free. This is used to store the notebooks and data. Do not forget to click refresh when returning to the Project page.
• Click Create.

Labs

• Lab 1 : Intro to Pandas
• Lab 2 : Intro to PixieDust
• Lab 3 : Intro to Predictive Modeling with Watson Machine