Hi folks - Thanks for taking a look at Azure notebooks. Here's some background info: What is it? It's an offshoot of Azure ML Studio which has Jupyter suppor

Hi folks - Thanks for taking a look at Azure notebooks. Here's some background info: What is it? It's an offshoot of Azure ML Studio which has Jupyter support. We asked the powers that be if we could also instantiate it also as a free service - "yes" was the answer. Who is it aimed at? Students, faculty, casual users, folks that want to give webinars, classrooms, etc & want to skip software install headaches. What does it support? Currently R, Py2, Py3, F#. Python is backed by the Anaconda distro. More kernels will be added based on user feedback. Environment runs on Linux/docker. Is it free? Yes. I need an account? Not to view content (a la nbviewer). To run, create notebooks, etc. you need a Microsoft account (xbox, outlook, hotmail, ...). Sample notebook to view (click on the eyeball): https://notebooks.azure.com/library/LIGOOpenScienceCenter https://notebooks.azure.com/library/LIGOOpenScienceCenter I don't like the UI! We are admittedly not UI people and are grateful to our summer intern for the current UI! Please send feedback to nbhelp@microsoft.com and we'll improve it! [EDIT: additions:] Can I get a bash prompt, install linux pkgs? Yes! In Jupyter, you can click on Terminal & you are in bash (ubuntu). Can I use pip, install.packages(), nuget, ... ? In Python/R/F#, you can use each environment's pkg mgr to install pkgs. EG "!pip install pkg", install.packages("ggplot2"), etc. See Py examples here: https://notebooks.azure.com/library/Intro_To_CNTK https://notebooks.azure.com/library/Intro_To_CNTK Is my environments saved? Currently, your notebooks are saved based on your login. Proper data, load github repo, etc. support is coming. For a bit more info, please view the faq: https://notebooks.azure.com/faq https://notebooks.azure.com/faq Thanks! [msft]