Overview first week installations and setup.#

Note

Disclaimer: Dealing with all these installations may be challenging if you are not from an IT background. Therefore, I have created this page to guide you through the things in a sequential order. You will also find various sources for assistance, including our lectures, videos, or tutorials, or a combination of all three. Hopefully, we will all navigate through this week smoothly.

Following are the installations for first week#

Setting up conda, environment and Jupyter notebook#

  • Setting up conda, environment, and Jupyter notebook (vscode, jupyterlab is also fine).

  • We expect you to know this from your previous courses. But if you still need help, then use the following helpers.

Helpers:

Install pgadmin.#

Important

For MAC OS users, download correct file based on your laptop chip.

  • pgadmin4-8.1-arm64.dmg – M1, M2, M3 chip

  • pgadmin4-8.1-x86_64.dmg — INTEL CHIP

Helpers:

Tutorial this week by Jordan 5 - 6 pm.

Setting up AWS account#

Helpers:

Setting up your RDS database.#

You need this for your worksheets and assignment 1.

Helpers:

  • I will be showing you this in lecture 2.

  • You can also check out the YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5zLfpLD8I

    • 11:30 Setting up RDS database

    • 25:58 IMPORTANT: Update security group RDS

  • Daniel is also hosting a tutorial Friday 2 – 3 PM.

Connecting from your pgadmin to RDS database.#

Helpers:

Loading dumps to your Database#

You need to do this for assignment 1 and worksheet 2.

Helpers:

Connecting from your Jupyter notebook to RDS database.#

Helpers:

In order to do this correctly, you should know about absolute and relative paths and how to give file location correctly. We expect you know this from your previous courses. But if you still need help, then use the following helpers.

Helpers:

Summary#

Here is the summary of the contents in the YouTube video, which is in sections above. You will also find it in the description of the YouTube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5zLfpLD8I

  • 0:00 Brief intro

  • 11:30 Setting up RDS database

  • 25:58 IMPORTANT: Update security group RDS

  • 29:00 Connecting pgadmin to the RDS

  • 34:30 Loading dumps to your Database

  • 45:10 Understanding absolute vs relative path

  • 52:58 Connecting Jupyter Notebook to the RDS