Getting started with Dask Transcripts
Chapter: Setup to follow along
Lecture: Setting up your system
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Before we dive into the course, let's set up our environment. We encourage you to use one of these two ways,
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either set up a local environment with Anaconda on your computer or if you're in
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a hurry use Binder, it's a great open platform that offers executable environments for
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anyone anywhere, at a moment's notice. We have one created for this course. However, Binder will not store your changes to the notebooks.
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You can get started with Binder very, very quickly by pressing this badge on our GitHub repository README page for this course.
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That said, we would like to encourage you to modify the notebooks that come with this course, and as we introduce new notebooks,
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we invite you to try things and explore the Dask API. In our experience, trying in the interactive Jupyter environment is a fantastic way to learn
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new concepts quickly and through practice. That gives you a deeper level of experience. Setting up your local environment,
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gives you the ability to keep your notes and come back to them. Let's go through the setup right now.