Foundational Python for Data Science

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Introduction to Notebooks

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

In This Chapter

• Running Python statements

• Introduction to Jupyter notebooks

• Introduction to Google Colab hosted notebooks

• Text and code cells

• Uploading files to the Colab environment

• Using a system alias to run shell commands

• Magic functions

This chapter introduces Google Colab’s Jupyter notebook environment, which is a great way for a beginner to get started in scientific Python development. This chapter begins by looking at traditional ways of running Python code.

Running Python Statements

Historically, Python was invoked either in an interactive Python shell or by supplying text files to the interpreter. If you have Python installed ...