WEEK ONE- WHAT IS SKILLS NETWORK LAB?

Welcome to Skills Network Labs, previously known as Data Scientist Workbench or BDU Labs. It's a free
virtual lab environment that lets you practice your skills in Python, R, and more, while you learn data
science.

Skills Network Labs is an environment that contains tools such as RStudio, Jupyter Notebook, and
Zeppelin Notebook. These tools provides an interactive environment for you to perform data analysis,
data visualization, machine learning and image recognition. For example, on Jupyter Notebook you can
train a model that can recognize the denomination of an Euro banknote by using just the image of the
banknote.
It's ready to use in your web browser. So without having to install anything on your computer, you can
immediately start using popular data science tools like RStudio IDE, Jupyter Notebooks, Apache Zeppelin
and more. In these videos, you'll be learning about these popular tools and how to get familiar working
in the environments. Skills Network Labs is also the virtual lab environment for cognitiveclass.ai, a
popular website with lots of free online courses in data science, artificial intelligence, and data
engineering. But throughout these videos, you'll also hear us referring to Data Scientist Workbench,
which is simply the former name of Skills Network Labs. So in actuality, Skills Network Labs and Data
Scientist Workbench are one and the same. Let's first go through some of the user interface on Skills
Network Labs shown in the image below to get you familiarized with the environment before jumping
into the data science tools.

Welcome to Skills Network Labs which you can access with labs.cognitiveclass.ai. On the Skills
Network Labs homepage, you have all the data science tools at your fingertips. Once you're on the main
page of Skills Network Labs, you'll find several buttons. Let's take a closer look at each of these building
analytics tools.

JupyterLab button takes you to Jupyter Labs which is an interactive environment that allows to run or
create notebooks that run codes in Python with Jupyter Notebooks, Scala on Apache Toree, and R.
JupyterLab button takes you to Jupyter Labs which is an interactive environment that allows to run or
create notebooks that run codes in Python with Jupyter Notebooks, Scala on Apache Toree, and R.
Let's take a look at a Python 3 notebook, notebook is an interactive document that allows you to
execute code in smaller chunks called cells. When you execute a cell, the notebook prints any output
immediately into the output cell. Doing so, allows you to do a number of things. For instance, you can
write your code to import data, print the data, clean the data, print the cleaned data, create a model
and print the model output and so on. And you can change the code in an input cell and rerun the cell as
often as you'd like, but that's not all, the notebook also supports rendering markup cells in line, so that
you can embed text, markdown HTML images, videos and even interactive widgets, all within a
notebook
Let's look at another building analytics tool called Zeppelin Notebooks, Zeppelin notebooks allow
Interactive Data Analytics. Like Jupyter, you use notebooks to ingest, discover analyze, visualize, and
collaborate with your data.

Currently, Apache's Zeppelin supports many interpreters such as Apache Spark, Python, JDBC,
Markdown and Shell.
Let's look at Tutorial for Scala. Apache Zeppelin provides built-in Apache Spark integration so you don't
need to build a separate module plugin or library for it. For data visualization, some basic charts are
already included in Zeppelin allowing you to convert from data tables directly into visualizations without
any code. Zeppelin also aggregates values and displays them in pivot charts, with simple drag and drop.
You can easily create charts with multiple aggregated values including sum, count, average, minimum
and maximum.
Finally let's look at RStudio in Building Analytics tools, RStudio IDE allows you to analyze data, take
advantage of many statistical packages, create beautiful visualizations and Web applications. Like other
IDEs, RStudio allows you to code in a console or a script editor as well as keep track of your variables and
history. You can display your plots, manage your packages, and see help documentation for R. Taking it a
step further, with R Shiny library, you can make your visualizations interactive. Using Shiny, you can
create all sorts of Web based interactive apps just using R code.