diff --git a/.binder/requirements.txt b/.binder/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e28efe081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.binder/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+numpy>=1.17.2
+pandas>=0.25.1
+scikit-learn>=0.22.1
+scipy>=1.4.1
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 740fa6db1..55fc70417 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
 # This pattern also affects html_static_path and html_extra_path.
 exclude_patterns = ["_build", "Thumbs.db", ".DS_Store", "README.rst"]
 
+
 master_doc = "index"
 
 # -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
@@ -181,6 +182,15 @@
     "gallery_dirs": "auto_examples",
     # pypandoc enables rst to md conversion in downloadable notebooks
     "pypandoc": True,
+    # binder configuration is used to ru
+    "binder": {
+        "org": "fairlearn",
+        "repo": "fairlearn",
+        "binderhub_url": "https://mybinder.org",
+        "branch": "main",
+        "dependencies": ["../.binder/requirements.txt"],
+        "use_jupyter_lab": True,
+    },
     "backreferences_dir": os.path.join("modules", "generated"),
     "doc_module": ("fairlearn",),
 }