Fire Data Academy / Google Colab - Setup Instructions

Learn how to setup Google Colab for running example python code.

Colaboratory, or “Colab” for short, is a product from Google Research. Colab allows anybody to write and execute arbitrary python code through the browser, and is especially well suited to machine learning, data analysis and education. More technically, Colab is a hosted Jupyter notebook service that requires no setup to use, while providing access free of charge to computing resources including GPUs." Google Colab FAQ

Prerequisite: sign up for free Google Account if you don't already have one

In your browser, open google.com.
Sign into your account.
Click on Google Apps icon in the top right corner.
Select Drive application.

In Drive application, click on '+ New'.

Select 'More'.
Choose '+ Connect more apps'.

In the search bar, type 'Colaboratory'.

The search result should return 'Colaboratory' app.
Click on the application image.

Click on'Colaboratory app 'Install' button.
Follow installation instructions.

After installation completed ...
In Drive application, click on '+ New'.

Select 'More'.
Choose '+ Connect more apps'.
Select 'Google Colaboratory' app.

New Colaborary window will open.