Developing Kaggle Notebooks

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Getting Ready for Your Kaggle Environment

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create your Kaggle account, and what is most important to know about Competitions, Datasets, Code (Notebooks), Discussions, and Kaggle Learn and Models. In this chapter, we will explore the Kaggle Notebooks functionality. Kernels and Code are used as alternative names sometimes to refer to Notebooks, Kernels being the old name and Code being the new menu name for Notebooks. Both terms, the old one and the new one, illustrate something important about a notebook on Kaggle.

We will start by introducing what a Kaggle Notebook is and explaining the difference between Kaggle Scripts and Kaggle Notebooks. We will then show how we can create a notebook, either from ...