Building Environments in Local Machines

Downloading Anaconda

Anaconda helps create an environment for many different versions of Python and package versions. Additionally, we will have important IDEs like Jupyter Notebook and Spyder to create and run our Python projects. As we used Jupyter Notebook files (.ipynb) in this course, we can easily run them in our notebook too.

You can download the latest version of Anaconda.

Local environment for image classification

Let’s start by discovering how to build a local environment for image classification projects.

Creating an isolated environment in Anaconda

Considering different tasks need different libraries and frameworks with different compatible versions, creating an isolated environment in our Anaconda framework and loading all the packages inside is important. This means that if we load, for example, Python 3.7, it’s only loaded in this environment, and for another project, we can still create a new environment with Python 3.8; these two different isolated environments don’t affect each other.

Let’s create our isolated environment with the libraries and packages we need:

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