Overview

Data Science Experience powers your data science products with Bluemix and Watson. You can use notebooks to develop and run data science projects, as well visualize, document and present your analysis.

For more information, read Getting Started with DSX.

Sign Up for Data Science Experience

Go to Data Science Experience and click the big blue button to sign up for a free trial.

Install Software

Python

Anaconda is the leading open data science platform powered by Python. The open source version of Anaconda is a high performance distribution of Python and includes over 100 of the most popular Python packages for data science.

• Install Anaconda for Windows
• Install Anaconda for Mac OS X
• Install Anaconda for Linux
  
Linux note: After downloading, run this from the terminal:


$ bash Anaconda2-4.3.1-Linux-x86_64.sh

Node.js

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js' package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world.

• Windows Installer
• MacOS Installer
• Linux Binaries

Text Editor

Here is a list of some popular programmer editors. There are versions for Windows, MacOS and Linux for each of the listed editors.

• Atom
• Sublime Text
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code