Building Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platform: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

© Ekaba Bisong 2019

E. . BisongBuilding Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4470-8_7

7. Google Colaboratory

Ekaba Bisong¹ 

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OTTAWA, ON, Canada

 

Google Colaboratory more commonly referred to as “Google Colab” or just simply “Colab” is a research project for prototyping machine learning models on powerful hardware options such as GPUs and TPUs. It provides a serverless Jupyter notebook environment for interactive development. Google Colab is free to use like other G Suite products.

Starting Out with Colab

The following steps provide a walk-through for launching a Notebook on Google Colab:

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   Go to https://colab.research.google.com/ and log in using your existing Google account to access ...