This page summarizes how to set up the IPython notebook for a the upcoming tutorials at the PyData and PyCon conferences.

• EPDFree: http://download.enthought.com/epd_free/epd_free-7.2-2-win-x86.msi
• PyQt - http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Downloads/PyQt4/PyQt-Py2.7-x86-gpl-4.9.1-1.exe
• pygments: easy_install pygments

Note: PyQt is NOT required for the pandas tutorial

Installation of PyQt from source on OS X and Linux is much more involved.

OS X: http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/05/12/pyqt-mac

The majority of the PyCon 2012 and PyData pandas tutorials will be carried out using the IPython HTML notebook. If you arrive at the tutorial unable to run the notebook on your laptop, you will be disappointed (!), so take a few minutes to ensure that you have all of the packages below installed and everything works. If you wish to be "on the bleeding edge", feel free to install the latest development version of the notebook from GitHub.

• Included in EPDFree (available for Windows, Linux, and Mac)
  • Python 2.7.2
  • NumPy 1.6.1
  • SciPy 0.9
  • matplotlib 1.1.0
  • IPython 0.12
  • pyzmq
  • tornado >= 2.1
• pygments easy_install pygments
• pandas >= 0.7.0 (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas)
• python-dateutil 1.5, easy_install http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-dateutil/python-dateutil-1.5.tar.gz

Open a command prompt and run ipython notebook --pylab=inline. Navigate to the displayed web address to connect to the notebook server.

Please use an appropriate binary installer from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas. Verify that pandas can be imported successfully: import pandas

Using easy_install or pip should install pandas out of the box on source. Please contact me immediately (wesmckinn A@T gmail D0T com) if something goes wrong.

Closer to the tutorial on March 7 I will post a link to an archive containing data sets and IPython notebook files that we will be using for the tutorial. Please ensure that you have downloaded this archive prior to arriving at the tutorial due to the unreliability of conference Wifi.