-
Have a local Python(3.7) environment
-
Have
git
, a version control tool (you should be able to rungit
in your terminal/cmd. If not, install it:- Windows: https://git-scm.com/download/win
- Mac: https://git-scm.com/download/mac
- Linux: ... this should already be here
-
While you're at it, make sure you have a github account as well, this will be useful later!
-
Set up your Python environment.
- Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/lucasdurand/visualization-seminar.git cd visualization-seminar
- Create a virtualenv and install our packages:
pip install pipenv # install pipenv if not already installed pipenv install --skip-lock # this installs everything we need
-
Once everything is installed you can activate the environment with
pipenv shell
.- Now things should work as expected: try running
jupyter notebook
to launch a Jupyter instance and confirm everything is happy.
- Now things should work as expected: try running
-
Install the Heroku CLI. Go ahead and create yourself a free account while you're at it. We are going to use this later to deploy an app to the Cloud.