This repository contains the learning material for the Nuclear TALENT course Learning from Data: Bayesian Methods and Machine Learning, in York, UK, June 10-28, 2019
Students are encouraged to install python and the required modules before the start of the school. Please contact the lecturers if you encounter problems when setting up the environment.
Download the repo from github and enter the directory which should have been created on your computer:
git clone https://github.com/NuclearTalent/Bayes2019.git
cd Bayes2019
The notebooks that we will be using depend on several scientific python modules (see the list in environment.yml) and require a python3.x installation.
These python modules and their dependencies are best installed using conda by creating
a virtual environment:
conda env create
which reads the environment.yml file in your current directory.
Some packages might not be found in the default conda channels. One can either specify relevant package channel(s) in the environment.yml file (as done here), or add them to the default conda channel configuration via, e.g,
conda config --append channels conda-forge
Once the virtual environment has been created it can be activated:
conda activate talent-env
To deactivate the virtual environment:
conda deactivate
Note that earlier versions of conda used 'source' instead of 'conda' to activate environments. If you have an earlier version of conda you might have to do
conda update conda
Note that there are also other options ('venv', 'pipenv') for creating virtual environments that includes the python version and packages that we will be using.
Once the environment is set up and activated, you are encouraged to enter the intro directory and start the jupyter notebook:
cd intro
jupyter notebook bayesTALENT_intro.ipynb