2 Install Jupyter Notebook

Jupyter Notebook is popular code editor or IDE and highly used by data science community. It supports multiple programming languages, github and big data integration. It facilitates user to perform data analysis and data visualization. It also called IPython Notebook in earlier days.

There are two ways to install Jupyter Notebook.

1. Installation using Anaconda:

Anaconda is data science toolkit which is a package of different editors including Jupyter Notebook. It includes Jupyterlab, qtconsole, spyder, vscode, rstudio, glueviz, orang3, etc.

  • Go to anaconda.org and click on ‘Download Anaconda’.

  • Click Download button which will start downloading latest anaconda installer for windows, which is having size about 500MB.

  • Install anaconda using installer. It will install ‘Anaconda Navigator’ (GUI) and ‘Anaconda Prompt’ (CLI).

  • You can open Anaconda GUI/CLI by searching them on windows search with respective names.

  • Search Jupyter in windows search and ‘Jupyter Notebook’ appear on the top. Click on it to launch.

2. Installation using PIP:

PIP is python package installer which comes with python installation by using which we can install different python packages. Anaconda package is of large size and comes with installation of different applications which are not necessory. Once you install Python3 on your system, you can install only jupyter notebook separately using PIP. Follow below steps and video which will demonstrates how to install ‘Jupyter Notebook’ without installing Anaconda.

  • Open windows command prompt.

  • Type pip install jupyter notebook and press enter key.

  • It will start downloading dependencies, wait till you get ‘Successfully installed jupyter notebook’.

  • Simply type jupyter notebook in command prompt to launch notebook into your default browser.

Here are the quick notes on above topic:


Follow below video to clear the concepts practically.

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Frequently asked Interview Questions

  1. What is Jupyter Notebook?

  2. How can you install Jupyter Notebook on your system?

  3. What are the prerequisites for installing Jupyter Notebook?

  4. How are different ways to install Jupyter Notebook?

  5. What are Jupyter Notebook cells and their types?