Jupyter Notebook

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Setting Up Jupyter Server

• starting with an Ubuntu m/c with python3 installed
• sudo apt-get install python3-pip
• apt-get install virtualenv
• virtualenv --python=python3 env
• python3 -m pip install -U jupyter matplotlib numpy pandas scipy scikit-learn
• jupyter notebook --generate-config
• jupyter notebook password (also used to change the password)
• nohup mkdir -p /opt/notebooks && jupyter notebook --notebook-dir=/opt/notebooks --ip='0.0.0.0' --port=8888 --no-browser --allow-root &> $(date +"%Y%m%dT%H%M%S")jupyter.log &
• jupyter notebook stop [8888]

Managing Jupyter Kernels

Add the virtualenv as a jupyter kernel

• Activate the virtualenv source your-venv/bin/activate
• Install jupyter in the virtualenv pip install jupyter
• Add the virtualenv as a jupyter kernel ipython kernel install --name "local-venv" --user
• Directly add virtualenv as a jupyter kernel python -m ipykernel install --user --name <local-venv> --display-name "<name-of-your-kernel>"

List Kernels

• jupyter kernelspec list

Remove Kernel

• jupyter kernelspec remove <kernel-name>

Change Kernel Name

• Use jupyter kernelspec list to see the folder the kernel is located in

• In that folder, open up file kernel.json and edit option "display_name"