Jupyter Setup Guide

Follow this guide to set up your Jupyter notebook environment for this class.

1. Go to the GCP console.
2. From the nav menu, select AI Platform and click on Notebooks.
3. Click on the + New Instance link to create a new instance.
4. Select Python 3.
5. On the new notebook screen, give your notebook instance a name (e.g. notebook).
6. For region, choose us-central1 (Iowa).
7. For zone, accept the default.
8. Click the Customize link to customize your instance.
9. Choose n1-standard-8 as the machine type.
10. Expand boot disk and increase the boot disk size to 150G (from 100G).
11. Don't make any other changes.
12. Click the Create button at the bottom to create your Jupyter instance.
13. When you done using your Jupyter instance, stop your instance from the console. If you forget to stop it, you will quickly run out of GCP credits! Get in the habit of stopping your resources when you are not using them and then restarting them when you are ready to use them again.