Jupyter Notebook
The REPL
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REPL stands for Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop. It is a way to express the 4 basic things a computer does when interacting with a program language (in our case, Python).
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An extremely popular one especially in Python, Data Science, and Machine Learning is called Jupyter Notebook, and its what we will primarily be using:
Installing Jupyter
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If you are going to be doing any serious bitcoin data analysis, you’ll want to have your own version of Jupyter on your computer.
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Click here for a page dedicated to that.
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If you are just starting out, there are ways to use Notebooks hosted by others, such as Google Colab below:
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It doesn’t have exactly all the same features, but it’s pretty close.
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If you prefer to use this, that’s fine. It certainly makes it very quick to just jump in and get started
Getting Started
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If you are completely new to using Jupyter Notebook, I would recommend starting here.