Jupyter

If you visit the Project Jupyter website you’ll encounter a bunch of “try it in your browser” buttons. If you’ve used Jupyter for a decade or so like me, you probably have also been ignoring these buttons. And if you have clicked on them, you might have been lead to a mybinder.org. Don’t get me wrong, mybinder is cool. It creates a docker image that remote-hosts a live environment so that you can share your interactive notebooks on the web. Cool stuff. But I just found something better. ...

I love using SASPy, but the setup can take a minute. I used to do the setup via the CLI until I started thinking I might be able to just do it straight from a Jupyter notebook. Having just a couple of cells in Jupyter notebook makes for easy copy-and-paste and reduces setup time. The code below has been tested on both Windows and Linux. As a bonus, this also works on Google Colab. ...