What is Google colab

Colab is a hosted Jupyter Notebook service that requires no setup to use and provides free access to computing resources, including GPUs and TPUs.

Colab is especially well suited to machine learning, data science, and education.

Enable GPUs for the notebook

Navigate to Edit→Notebook Settings

select GPU from the Hardware Accelerator drop-down

Resources

Working with Notebooks in Colab

• Overview of Colab
• Guide to Markdown
• Importing libraries and installing dependencies
• Saving and loading notebooks in GitHub
• Interactive forms
• Interactive widgets

Working with Data

• Loading data: Drive, Sheets, and Google Cloud Storage
• Charts: visualizing data
• Getting started with BigQuery

Machine Learning Crash Course

These are a few of the notebooks from Google's online Machine Learning course. See the full course website for more.

• Intro to Pandas DataFrame
• Intro to RAPIDS cuDF to accelerate pandas
• Linear regression with tf.keras using synthetic data

Using Accelerated Hardware

• TensorFlow with GPUs
• TensorFlow with TPUs

References

• Google Colaboratory
• Get started with Google Colaboratory (Coding TensorFlow)
• Curated Notebooks