Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

Validating the virtual environment

Now, let's open the checking_your_setup.ipynb notebook in the ch_01 folder, as shown in the following screenshot:

The kernel is the process that runs and introspects our code in a Jupyter Notebook. By default, we will be using the IPython kernel. We will learn a little more about IPython in later chapters.

Click on the code cell indicated in the previous screenshot and run it by clicking the play (▶) button. If everything shows up in green, the environment is all set up. However, if this isn't the case, run the following command from the virtual environment to create a special kernel with book_env for use ...