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This will do two things. First, it will create an IPython Notebook instance that will
run in the command prompt you just used. Second, it will launch your web browser
and connect to this instance, allowing you to create a new notebook. It will look
something similar to the following screenshot (where home/bob will be replaced by
your current working directory):
To stop the IPython Notebook from running, open the command prompt that
has the instance running (the one you used earlier to run the IPython command).
Then, press Ctrl + C and you will be prompted Shutdown this notebook server
(y/[n])?. Type y and press Enter and the IPython Notebook will shutdown.
Installing scikit-learn
The scikit-learn package is a machine learning library, written in Python. It
contains numerous algorithms, datasets, utilities, and frameworks for performing
machine learning. Built upon the scientific python stack, scikit-learn users such as
the numpy and scipy libraries are often optimized for speed. This makes scikit-learn
fast and scalable in many instances and also useful for all skill ranges from beginners
to advanced research users. We will cover more details of scikit-learn in Chapter 2,
Classifying with scikit-learn Estimators.
To install scikit-learn, you can use the pip utility that comes with
Python 3, which will also install the numpy and scipy libraries if you do not
already have them. Open a terminal with administrator/root privileges and
enter the following command:
$ pip3 install -U scikit-learn
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