Introduction to Colaboratory

What is Colaboratory? Colaboratory is a web-based research tool for doing machine learning and deep learning. It is essentially like Jupyter Notebook. Colaboratory is becoming very popular these days as it requires no setup.

Throughout this book, we will be using Python 3 running on Colaboratory which will have installed all the libraries we may need.

Colaboratory is free to use and is compatible with most major browsers. The company in charge of the development of the Colaboratory tool is Google^™. As opposed to Jupyter notebooks, in Colaboratory you are running everything on the cloud and not on your own computer. Here is the catch: you need a Google account since all the Colaboratory notebooks are saved into your personal Google Drive space. However, if you do not have a Google account, you can still continue reading to see how you can install every piece of Python library you will need to run things on your own. Still, I highly recommend you create...