Introduction to scientific computing with Python

Installation

Install Anaconda for Windows or macOS.

For TensorFlow on recent Mac notebooks, you may need this workaround (thanks to P. Liautaud).

You can either install Anacoda for Linux or (favorite option) install python3 with its package manager pip:

sudo apt-get install python3-full python3-pip ipython3

Since 2024, packages have to be installed inside a virtual environment. To create it:

python3 -m venv ~/p3venv/

Then, jump in it and install the required packages manually:

source ~/p3venv/bin/activate
pip3 install jupyterlab numpy scipy matplotlib pillow scikit-learn seaborn pandas statsmodels cvxopt ipympl tensorflow

To quit the virtual environment, use:

deactivate

To launch JupyterLab, write in a shell:

source ~/p3venv/bin/activate
jupyter-lab