‫Now you might be looking at this kind of graphic and going, okay, I'll get my computer.
‫But what is this?
‫Mini conda, conda, python, all these graphics I've never seen before.
‫What is actually going on here?
‫And don't worry if you're feeling like that.
‫It took me a long time to get my head around this kind of workflow.
‫More specifically, this one here.
‫So this is what we're going to be setting up in this lecture.
‫Now, remember, this one is for Windows.
‫So if you're on a mac, you may want to go to the Mac version of this, but if you're on windows, you
‫can stay here and watch right through this.
‫We're going to build out this little workflow from scratch.
‫And this is what you likely have.
‫You're probably watching this video on your computer.
‫What we're going to do is set up this project folder and then use Conda to worry about data later in
‫a future, future lesson.
‫What?
‫We're going to set up a project folder and then use Conda, the personal assistant of our data science
‫and machine learning tools to create this environment.
‫Now, remember, this is the kind of workflow that you would do for each new project.
‫And for this lecture, we're going to set up a sample project folder, but we're going to have experience
‫setting up this kind of workflow in each of the hands on projects throughout this course.
‫But this is just to get your head around it, to understand what this kind of workflow looks like.
‫And so we can just practice setting up a new project and getting our tools ready for data science and
‫machine learning.
‫More specifically, we're going to be going through these these steps here and now this flow chart will
‫be in the resources section.
‫But if we have a look here, this is the mini kind of one we're going to be taking because we've chosen
‫to use Mini Conda because it is a data scientist workbench and it takes up ten times less space on our
‫computer than Anaconda, but offers all the value of what Conda can offer.
‫The start would download Mini Conda, install it to your computer test installation, create a project
‫folder and change into it.
‫Create an environment folder with the project within the project folder.
‫Activate the new environment which will give us access to the tools we've installed to our environment.
‫Install Jupyter, load up a Jupyter notebook and check the tools you need.
‫So let's get started.
‫To begin, we open up a web browser and it's conveniently got mini con to download here.
‫Already done.
‫So we're going to search mini conda download.
‫Click on the link will take you to the mini conda download page.
‫The link is look something like this.
‫What you should see is a few options here for downloads.
‫A few more links.
‫Now, because we're doing the Windows version, we're going to download the Windows version of Mini
‫Condor.
‫If remember, if you're on macOS, you might want to look into the Mac OS version.
‫But this lecture we're using Windows, so we're going to choose the latest one, which is Mini Conda,
‫Windows 64 bit Python 3.7 because Python 2.7 is getting deprecated after 2020.
‫So we're going to focus on Python three plus.
‫So we click that.
‫We're going to click.
‫We're on.
‫Windows is going to run a security scan over that and we'll wait for the download to download.
‫We might skip this video a little bit for once.
‫It downloads complete.
‫Once the downloads complete, this little icon here, which is the mini condor icon, might appear in
‫your bar down here, but otherwise, if it doesn't check your downloads folder for the the file name
‫that we downloaded, it should look something like this and click on it and you should see something
‫like this appear.
‫Now, to go through these steps, we're just going to hit next.
‫I agree.
‫I'm going to keep it on the recommended settings, which is going to install.
‫Now you're going to see the Anaconda logo here, but don't be confused by that.
‫We're installing Mini, but this is the one you want to pay attention to.
‫We're going to click Just Me, Keep It Recommended next.
‫Now, in my case, it's going to be in my user account.
‫So users slash Daniel slash mini kind of three.
‫You might want to store it somewhere different, but make sure it's easily accessible in the users folder
‫is easily accessible for me, so I'm going to keep it there.
‫Again, we're going to keep this on the recommended setting, as you can see here, not recommended
‫install.
‫Now.
‫We'll just wait for this to install.
‫Beautiful.
‫Now the installation is complete.
‫It might have taken a few minutes, but that's okay.
‫We're going to take these.
‫I'm going to click finish.
‫So now we should have if you've gone through those setup steps, you should have many installed on your
‫computer.
‫So what does this mean?
‫Well, we've gone through step one and two of of what we're going to go through.
‫Now, we're going to end this lecture here.
‫You might be thinking, Daniel, there's still a bunch of steps we haven't done, but, yeah.
‫To prevent this lecture from getting too long.
‫We're going to take care of these, test the installation, create a project folder and all the rest
‫in the next video.
‫So I'll see you there.