Prerequisites for this chapter
Just like in the previous chapter, we will perform some initial activities that are required before we can start to perform the primary activities in this chapter.
Google Cloud makes it even easier to get started with the data science libraries we described in the previous sections because we can use Vertex AI Workbench notebooks that already have these libraries installed. If you wanted to use these libraries outside of Vertex AI, you would need to install them yourself.
Considering that we’re going to use Vertex AI notebooks, and we will not need to explicitly install the libraries, we will not include details on how to do that in this book. If you would like to install the libraries in another environment, including Google Compute Engine (GCE) or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you can find installation instructions on the respective websites for each of those libraries, such as:
