Machine Learning in Cloud

Machine Learning in Cloud

How to Install Python?

Install and run Python code on your computer

Update: screenshot are updated on 10 March 2020

Python can be installed in many different ways

This article is targeting beginners, so I will explain how to install Anaconda on your computer

Anaconda is a free, open-source distribution that helps data scientists and machine learning engineers to perform tasks in Python/R across Linux, MAC OS X and Windows platforms. To read more, please visit Anaconda website.

Step by step guide to install Anaconda

This is on Mac OS X operating system) but it is more or less the same in other operating systems.

1. Visit Anaconda Download

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Click the desired operating system (usually automatically detected)

2. Click Download or 64-Bit Graphical Installer (654 MB)

3. Double click the installer (the file downloaded from the previous step).

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Click open or double click

4. Click continue, then continue

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Click continue
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Click continue

Note:

If you are on windows operating systems, you see Next instead of Continue. You also have to tick Add Anaconda to my PATH environment variable.

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Click the box beside Add Anaconda to my PATH environment variable

5. Chose where you want to install Anaconda. I chose default location and only for current user.

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Click Install for me only and continue

6. Click install

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Click Install

After the installation is finished. You can findAnaconda Navigator in your Application folder on Mac OS X and Start menuin Windows.

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Click Anaconda Navigator to open Anaconda

Congrats on successfully installing Anaconda.

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