Quickest way to try out Jupyter Notebook: zero install, 3 CLI commands and 5 minutes to action

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This brief article shows you the quickest way to trying out Jupyter Notebooks. It will not try to persuade you that you should try them out. You probably know that already. It will not show a complex Notebook in detail – plenty of those are available. It simply tells you:

- open your browser at the Katacoda Ubuntu 20.4 Playground:

https://www.katacoda.com/courses/ubuntu/playground2004

create directory
mkdir work
change into directory
cd work
clone a GitHub Repository:
git clone https://github.com/lucasjellema/DOAG2020-DataWranglingWithJupyterNotebooks

run a Docker container with JupyterLab and Python 3 inside

docker run --rm -p 10000:8888 -v "$PWD":/home/jovyan/work -e JUPYTER_ENABLE_LAB=yes jupyter/minimal-notebook

wait for several minutes while the fairly large container image is pulled, then started
when the container is running, the terminal window shows a token. Copy the token value to the clipboard
open a terminal for Host 1 at port 10000
a new browser tab is started and the JupyterLab environment is available
open the HelloWorldNotebook and read and execute it. It will introduce you to the concept of the Notebook, to the Pandas en Matplotlib libraries and to some plain old Python.

In less than 10 minutes, you will have had you first hands on experience with JupyterLab, notebooks and Pandas. Note: the Katacoda environment is available for 60 minutes, then it will die on you, so do not get attached.

And now the same steps again, with screenshots:

- open your browser at the Katacoda Ubuntu 20.4 Playground:

https://www.katacoda.com/courses/ubuntu/playground2004

create directory
mkdir work
change into directory
cd work
clone a GitHub Repository:
git clone https://github.com/lucasjellema/DOAG2020-DataWranglingWithJupyterNotebooks

run a Docker container with JupyterLab and Python 3 inside

docker run --rm -p 10000:8888 -v "$PWD":/home/jovyan/work  -e JUPYTER_ENABLE_LAB=yes jupyter/minimal-notebook

wait for several minutes while the fairly large container image is pulled, then started
when the container is running, the terminal window shows a token. Copy the token value to the clipboard
open a terminal for Host 1 at port 10000

a new browser tab is started; paste the token

and the JupyterLab environment is available
open the HelloWorldNotebook

and read and execute it. It will introduce you to the concept of the Notebook, to the Pandas en Matplotlib libraries and to some plain old Python.

Resources

My GitHub Repo with sources and an introductory presentation on Jupyter Notebooks: https://github.com/lucasjellema/DOAG2020-DataWranglingWithJupyterNotebooks

A YouTube recording of my recent session for DOAG2020 on Jupyter Notebooks: https://youtu.be/pT62F542uhM

About Post Author

Lucas Jellema

Lucas Jellema, active in IT (and with Oracle) since 1994. Oracle ACE Director and Oracle Developer Champion. Solution architect and developer on diverse areas including SQL, JavaScript, Kubernetes & Docker, Machine Learning, Java, SOA and microservices, events in various shapes and forms and many other things. Author of the Oracle Press book Oracle SOA Suite 12c Handbook. Frequent presenter on user groups and community events and conferences such as JavaOne, Oracle Code, CodeOne, NLJUG JFall and Oracle OpenWorld.

lucas.jellema@amis.nl

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