If you haven’t covered the issues in the “Google Colab-1 Getting Started” story please follow the link below.
If you have already covered the issues in the first story we may go on with the other features of Google Colab. In this story we will cover how to:
- Switch to the dark mode
- Read a CSV file
- Where to find the shortcut for stack overflow
- Restart kernel
- Commit to GitHub and share
- Share your notebook.
Anyone who likes the dark mode can click the Tools tab, and then settings as seen below.
From settings, you may click on the Theme from the Site menu and then select the dark feature as seen below. Don’t forget to save after your choice. After you save you will switch to the dark mode.
While working in your Google Drive, reading a CSV file is so easy. You may define or specify a folder in your Google Drive for your notebooks or data files. Or you may upload them in the automatically-created “drive/MyDrive/Colab Notebooks” folder.
You just go through the folders Drive-MyDrive-Colab Notebooks and find your file inside the folder. Right-click on the file-name you want to read. After right-click, you will see the menu as seen below. Left-click the Copy path option.
As you have the path, you may paste it just between the quotes in your code-line. When you run the cell, you will have your “df” to work on.
df=pd.read_csv(‘/content/drive/MyDrive/Colab Notebooks/22-Deep Learning/fake_reg.csv’)
If you have any issues with your code, you may just click on the “SEARCH STACK OVERFLOW” button which appears just below your output cell.
You will be directed to the Google website for your further research. You may go through the web for a solution and then come back to your Google Colab tab on your browser.
If you have any issues with the kernel you may restart and run all the codes, or you may choose any option from the menu as you do in your Jupyter notebooks. Just select the “Runtime” tab and go through the option you want.
When you are done with your notebook you may either save it to your Google Drive or upload it to your Github repositories. Please find the short introductive video below.
Once you commit to your GitHub repository, you may open your file from your GitHub account with the shortcut link above the file. When you open your file with the Google Colab link you will see the GitHub icon on the upper left corner of your file, next to the file name.
If you want to share your GitHub file, you can click the share button on the upper right corner and you get the view as seen below. you get a warning. “Warning: Shared links will not contain your edits or outputs. To include your edits, select File→Save a copy in Drive and generate a link from the resulting copy.”
So if you want to share your notebook as it is, you may copy the link and share it. But if you want to share your file, and you want your colleagues to see the updates and changes, you may save it to your drive from the link on the upper left of your notebook (Copy to Drive) and share a link from your Google Drive.
How to share the Google Colab Notebook?
When you want to share your notebook (while working in the Google Drive folder) you may click the Share button.
You may share your notebook via passing e-mail addresses of your colleagues to the line shown below, and click “Done”.
Or you may click anywhere on the Get link pane, and then click on the small triangle icon near the Restricted option, and change your choice to “Anyone with the link” as seen below.
And then click on the small triangle icon near the Viewer option. You have three sharing options. The viewer option is for just showing your file who has the link. Commenter option is for anyone with the link that may not change your file but may comment on your file. The Editor option lets anyone with the link viewing, committing, and editing to your files.
Once you set the options you may copy the link and share it with anyone you want.
Conclusion
So far we covered how to:
- Switch to the dark mode
- Read a CSV file
- Where to find the shortcut for stack overflow
- Restart kernel
- Commit to GitHub and share
- Share your notebook.
Google Colab gives us easy use features, especially on sharing issues. It creates a live Notebook where anyone with the link sees the updates, and it is possible to communicate with your colleagues by the notebook using comments. you may assign a person using the comments. and they may check the comment card when they finish or may add additional comments on the issue. so follow me for learning how to do that and for the new issues.
