Set-Up your Data Science Laboratory

Hello Internet, in the following tutorial, we will be installing Anaconda3 and setting up our Data Science Laboratory.

Anaconda is the most popular Python data science platform used by approximately 6 million users. With easy-to-use interface and easy-to-install libraries, Anaconda is the go-to Data Science distribution for Data Scientists with Python as their primary coding language.

To install Anaconda, simple search Anaconda of Google Chrome.

• If you do not see the URL listed above. Just type in the following URL in any web browser.

www.anaconda.com

• Click on the top right downloads button. You will be redirected to the following downloads page.

• Select your operating system. I have a windows machine, hence I will be clicking on the windows icon. This will slide me down to the specific version selection for the Anaconda distribution.

If you do not know your OS version, search up "msinfo32" (for Windows) in the search bar.

• Click on System Information. You can find your OS version enlisted in the System Summary.

• Click on the distribution for your OS.

• Your download should start automatically. Once downloaded, follow the step-by-step instructions to install Anaconda3 on your machine.

Make sure to INCLUDE THE PATH VARIABLE in the installation. Once Anaconda3 has been installed on your device, search for Anaconda and open up the prompt.

• This will open a command line interface in your device. We will be installing theano, tensorflow and keras to be completely ready for the Deep Learning challenges that lie ahead.

Enter the following commands in a sequential manner.

conda create -n py35 python=3.5 anaconda

• This will create a new environment in anaconda for Python3.5. Enter "y" whenever prompted.

Activate the environment with the following command.

activate py35

Let's install spyder in this environment.

conda install spyder

• Once spyder has been installed, move over to the main packages. Enter the following commands one after the other.

conda install theano

conda install tensorflow

conda install keras

That's it. To check if all the packages have been installed correctly, search for anaconda prompt (py35) in the search bar and open it.

• Run the following command to start spyder.

spyder

import theano

import tensorflow

import keras

IMPORT SUCCESSFUL. On to the next challenge, i.e Learning DL.

Until next time internet, enjoy Machine Learnin