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# Go to [Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/)

Sign in to [Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/) if you are not already. Launch "File > New Notebook in Drive". 

Done. 

If you would prefer to have a local version of the Python environment we are using, see below for setup instructions.


# At home setup

To complete the exercises presented in the workshop, you may create a Python environment with the following packages:

```sh
git clone https://github.com/Sydney-Informatics-Hub/ParallelPython.git

cd ParallelPython

conda env create -f environment.yml

conda activate parallel
```

At the time of this workshop, the major package versions were:

```default
dask=2022.10.0
jupyterlab=3.4.8
matplotlib-base=3.5.3
numpy=1.23.4
pandas=1.5.1
python=3.9.13
scikit-learn=1.1.2
scipy=1.9.3
seaborn=0.12.1
polars=1.3.0
```

Other combinations may also work.