FeatureByte Hosted Tutorials

FeatureByte has created a hosted environment for the back-end services required to run our tutorial and workshop notebooks. The notebooks can then be executed using your preferred local scripting environment or using a hosted solution like Google Collaboratory.

Get Started By Signing Up for an Access Token

Enter your name and email at our sign up page and once you have verified your email, follow the directions below to get started.

Get Started Using Google Colaboratory

The hosted tutorial notebooks are designed to work with Google's Colaboratory hosted notebook platform. Follow the steps below once you have your access token.

1. Navigate to Google Colaboratory in your preferred browser.
2. Select the GitHub tab in the pop up once the page loads.
3. Enter https://github.com/featurebyte/featurebyte-hosted-tutorials in the search bar and press enter.
4. Select your preferred tutorial from the list below.
5. Run the first paragraph to install featurebyte and the supporting library for the tutorials.
6. Click Run anyway on the pop up after executing the first paragraph.
7. In the second paragraph replace the <api_token> placeholder with the access token from the welcome email.

Get Started Using A Local Notebook

The hosted notebook tutorials are also compatible with using a local notebook environment like Jupyter Lab.

1. Download the notebook archive.
2. Unzip the archive into your preferred local working directory.
3. Load your preferred tutorial.
4. Run the first paragraph to install featurebyte and the supporting library for the tutorials.
5. In the second paragraph replace the <api_token> placeholder with the access token from the welcome email.