Jupyter virtualenv setup

Setup

1. Install Anaconda for Python 3.7 for your operating system: Anaconda
2. Create a directory/folder for data science and move into it.
3. Download environment.yml
4. Execute conda env create -f environment.yml
5. You now have all the libraries listed in environment.yml
6. Set up Jupyter notebook to use this environment: python -m ipykernel install --user --name <env_name> --display-name "Python <env_name>"

For now, the only thing in this directory will be the environment.yml file.

Workflow

1. conda activate <env_name> - this will activate the environment. (Use conda env list to see your installed environments).
2. jupyter notebook - this will start the Jupyter notebook environment with the current directory as the root.
3. When you create a new Jupyter notebook, you can select "Python <env_name>" as the kernel.

When you're done, you can invoke conda deactivate.

Common issue

jupyter notebook deson't work, it's probabbly notebook isn't installed in the virtual env

conda install notebook