Learning by example

Let's have a look at an example in order to learn how to use this tool:

1. If you don't have a Bluemix account, register for one here: ibm.biz/CloudFreemium.
2. Once you have an account in place, go to https://datascience.ibm.com, and click on Sign In.
3. Click on Sign-In with your IBM ID, and follow the instructions.

Once you are ready to go, let's start with a small hello world project by creating a Jupyter notebook on Scala with Apache Spark 2.x.

As illustrated in the following screenshot, click on the Create notebook button:

This opens the Create notebook dialog as illustrated here:

So let's have a look at what information we need to provide:

1. First of all, each notebook needs a name. We choose packt_hello_world as the name.
2. Then we select Scala as the programming language.
3. We want to run our code on an Apache Spark 2.x instance.
4. We choose...