NICAR 2025, Minneapolis
Jonathan Soma, Knight Chair in Data Journalism at Columbia Journalism School
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Avoid setup and just use these notebooks on Google Colab.
Open up Terminal (it's a little black box down at the bottom of the screen), copy and paste this and hit enter:
cd ~/Desktop/hands_on_classes/20250307-friday-analyzing-images-and-videos-with-ai
source env/bin/activate
jupyter notebook
It should open up a browser with some stuff in it.
Various Pythons may or may not work for this – I use 3.10 or 3.11, not exactly sure about more recent ones. I think all of the pip install commands are in the Jupyter notebooks themselves, so you shouldn't need anything on that front. Maybe brew install ffmpeg, depending on what you're up to.