An Introduction to Google Colab (Python)

To further enrich data science practitioners experience on programming in data science and machine learning methods, I summarised the benefits of using Google Colab (i.e. cloud-based Python programming platform):

1. The best thing is that it is free. https://colab.research.google.com
2. To match the industry standards or if you are running time and memory consuming codes, it is not possible to install costly GPUs on your personal machines. To the best of my knowledge, each notebook in Colab environment can use free GPU (i.e. NVIDIA Teslak80 ~ cost £3500.00) in Colab environment, independent of what personal machine you are using. …