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 Default Project. Putting notebooks into projects facilitates collaboration, resource assignments, and version management of third-party libraries.
5. Finally...