How to Install Scientific Python

13 Oct 2016

Up until now we’ve been using our public Jupyterhub instance. However, as we move one it’ll be vital that you have access to a Python environment of your own in order to play around, write code, and submit results. Unfortunately, the process of installing Python can be a huge pain, unless you use the Anaconda Python distribution.

Instructions

So here are the steps:

Click here to download and install Anaconda.
Run the following code in your terminal:

conda update conda
conda update ipython

Run ipython notebook
If necessary, go to the URL http://localhost:8888/