From the course: Data Science on Google Cloud Platform: Exploratory Data Analytics

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What is Datalab?

What is Datalab? - Google Cloud Tutorial

From the course: Data Science on Google Cloud Platform: Exploratory Data Analytics

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What is Datalab?

- [Instructor] Let us now dive deep into Cloud Datalab. Cloud Datalab is a tool on GCP to build and execute exploratory data analytics projects. It is essentially a Jupyter-based notebook, which Python developers are extremely familiar with. It is a managed version of this tool. Datalab runs on a dedicated compute engine on GCP, which is fully managed. As a user, you will install Cloud SDK on your laptop or desktop, then set up Datalab and run it through the Cloud SDK shell. All operations for Datalab can then be managed through your browser without having to login to the Cloud GCP console. All notebooks created through Cloud Datalab are stored in ungit and accessible through both the Cloud SDK and the compute engine VM for Datalab.

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