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Learning Jupyter 5 - Second Edition

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Learning Jupyter 5 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

The Jupyter Notebook allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text. The Jupyter Notebook system is extensively used in domains such as data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, and machine learning. Learning Jupyter 5 will help you get to grips with interactive computing using real-world examples. The book starts with a detailed overview of the Jupyter Notebook system and its installation in different environments. Next, you will learn to integrate the Jupyter system with different programming languages such as R, Python, Java, JavaScript, and Julia, and explore various versions and packages that are compatible with the Notebook system. Moving ahead, you will master interactive widgets and namespaces and work with Jupyter in a multi-user mode. By the end of this book, you will have used Jupyter with a big dataset and be able to apply all the functionalities you’ve explored throughout the book. You will also have learned all about the Jupyter Notebook and be able to start performing data transformation, numerical simulation, and data visualization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Installing the Scala kernel


The steps for macOS are as follows (taken from https://developer.ibm.com/hadoop/2016/05/04/install-jupyter-notebook-spark): 

Note

I could not get the steps for using the Scala kernel to work on a Windows 10 machine.

  1. Install git using the following command:
yum install git
  1. Copy the scala package locally:
git clone https://github.com/alexarchambault/jupyter-scala.git
  1. Install the sbt build tool by running:
sudo yum install sbt
  1.  Move the jupyter-scala directory to the scala package:
cd jupyter-scala
  1. Build the package:
sbt cli/packArchive
  1.  To launch Scala shell, use the following command:
./jupyter-scala
  1.  Check the kernels installed by running this command (you should now see Scala in the list):
 jupyter kernelspec list
  1. Launch the Jupyter Notebook:
jupyter notebook
  1. You can now choose to use a Scala 2.11 shell.

At this point, if you start Jupyter, you will see Scala listed:

 

 

 

If we create a Scala Notebook, we end up with the familiar layout with an icon displaying that we are running Scala...