Google Colab Service

A Google Colab Service is a cloud-based Jupyter Notebook-based notebooking environment.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be used to create Google Colab Notebooks.
  • It can (typically) have Google Colab Features, such as Colab Forms, and Colab AI.
  • It can provide free access to computing resources including CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs.
  • It can support collaboration, allowing multiple people to work on the same notebook simultaneously.
  • It can support integration with Google Drive and GitHub for storing and sharing notebooks.
  • It can provide a pre-configured environment with many popular Python libraries pre-installed.
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• Example(s):
  • Google Colab, 2017.
  • Google Colab, 2019.
  • Google Colab, 2021.
  • Google Colab, 2023.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Amazon Sagemaker Notebooks or Microsoft Azure Notebook.
  • Google Vertex AI.
  • Kaggle Kernels.
  • Anaconda Data Analysis Platform.
  • Online Spreadsheet Platform, like Google Sheets.
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• See: Jupyter Notebook, Interactive Development Environment, Data Analysis, Jupyter Project.

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References

2023

• bard
  • QUOTE: Google Colab is a free, easy-to-use Jupyter notebook environment that runs in the cloud. It is a great choice for beginners and researchers who want to experiment with machine learning. However, it does not offer as many features as Vertex AI, such as managed infrastructure, pre-trained models, and integration with other Google Cloud services.

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Jupyter#History Retrieved:2023-8-27.
  • … Examples include Amazon SageMaker Notebooks, Google's Colaboratory, and Microsoft Azure Notebook. ...

2023

• https://colab.research.google.com/
  • QUOTE: Colab, or “Colaboratory", allows you to write and execute Python in your browser, with
    • Zero configuration required
    • Access to GPUs free of charge
    • Easy sharing
  • Whether you're a student, a data scientist or an AI researcher, Colab can make your work easier. Watch Introduction to Colab to learn more, or just get started below! ...

2022

• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/google_colab/what_is_google_colab.htm
  • QUOTE: If you have used Jupyter notebook previously, you would quickly learn to use Google Colab. To be precise, Colab is a free Jupyter notebook environment that runs entirely in the cloud. Most importantly, it does not require a setup and the notebooks that you create can be simultaneously edited by your team members - just the way you edit documents in Google Docs. Colab supports many popular machine learning libraries which can be easily loaded in your notebook.
  • What Colab Offers You?

    As a programmer, you can perform the following using Google Colab.

    • Write and execute code in Python
    • Document your code that supports mathematical equations
    • Create/Upload/Share notebooks
    • Import/Save notebooks from/to Google Drive
    • Import/Publish notebooks from GitHub
    • Import external datasets e.g. from Kaggle
    • Integrate PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV
    • Free Cloud service with free GPU

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