Lab-in-a-Box

Lab-in-a-box is a complete ipython notebook environment wrapped up in a docker image.

Packages

As a base, Lab-in-a-box provides the defacto standard packages:

• iPython/Jupyter
• Pandas
• matplotlib
• numpy
• sympy
• scipy
• Latex support

This image also provides some extras and nice-to-haves:

• Bokeh
• geopandas
• mpld3
• NLTK
• prettyplotlib
• requests
• scikit-learn
• seaborn

Extensions

Extension wise, the image is slim but the following extensions are loaded by default:

• hide_input
• execute_time
• python-markdown
• toc

Examples

Some cool notebooks are located in notebooks/.

Testing Functionality

Lab Tests.ipynb can be used to test various functionality provided by packages.

Usage

If you don't want to build it, you can run get to business with this:

echo "http://localhost:$(docker run -dPt -v ~/notebooks:/notebooks drewfradette/lab-in-a-box | xargs docker inspect | grep "HostPort" | head -1 | tr -d \" | awk '{print $2}')"

Then, simply open your browser up to the port shown after docker run.