How to run notebooks?

Start here (no coding setup needed)

In this course, we use Jupyter notebooks: interactive pages where text, code, and results appear together.

You will see the notebooks on GitHub. Think of GitHub as a public online folder for course code and files.

For beginners, the easiest method is to open notebooks in Google Colab (runs in your browser, no installation required).

Notebook order for this course

1. 01 Colab Intro
2. 02 Python Brush up
3. 03 Vectorizing Texts
4. 04 Vector Space Model (Egyptian)
5. 05 Vector Space Model
6. 06 PMI (A. Sahala)
7. 09 Vectors to Networks

How to run a notebook from GitHub (recommended)

1. Open one notebook link above.
2. On the GitHub page, click Open in Colab.
   (If you do not see this button, copy the GitHub URL and open: https://colab.research.google.com/ → GitHub tab → paste URL.)
3. In Colab, click Copy to Drive so you can edit your own copy.
4. Run cells top-to-bottom with Shift+Enter.
5. If asked, click Connect (top-right) to start the runtime.

Important habits

• Always run cells in order from top to bottom.
• Save your work in your own Google Drive copy.
• If a cell fails, restart runtime and run all cells again.