Binderhub exercises#

For this exercise you will need a Github account. Sign-up via .

In exercises 1 to 4 you are going to upload a Jupyter notebook to Github and share it via Binderhub.

Exercise 1:#

First create the Github repo and insert a notebook file.

Task:

  • Create a Github repo. You can use any repo name you choose. If you cannot decide a suggestion is ‘binder_exercise’

  • Make a local copy of the notebook that contains the solutions to ED data wrangling exercise.

  • Push the notebook to the repo.

Hints

  • If you do not know how to use GitHub you can create the repository and then click on the green upload button. This will allow you to select the notebook and add a commit message.

  • If you prefer to do this via git then I recommend creating the remote repo first, cloning locally, add (and stage), commit the notebook. Finally push using git push. Depending on your authentication method you may be asked for your GitHub username and password.

Exercise 2:#

You now need to create a conda environment file so that binderhub knows what version of python and data science packages to install.

Task:

  • Create a directory in the repo called `binder``

  • Create a conda environment file in binder/environment.yml with the appropriate libraries. A suggestion is:

name: binder_ex
channels:
  - defaults
  - conda-forge
dependencies:
  - matplotlib=3.4.2
  - numpy=1.20.3
  - pandas=1.3.1
  - python=3.8.8

  • Commit the changes and push to github using your preferred method.

Exercise 3:#

You are now ready to share your notebook via binder

Task

  • Copy the URL of your GitHub repo’s main page.

  • Using your browser navigate to https://mybinder.org

  • Paste the URL of your Github repo and click on ‘launch’ (the build will take several minutes)

Exercise 4:#

Let’s add a ‘launch binder badge’ to a README.md file in your repo.

Task:

  • From the BinderHub setup page copy the markdown text that you will use to create the badge.

  • If required (i.e. you don’t already have one). Create a README.md file and add it to your GitHub repo.

  • Open README.md for editing. At the top paste in the copied launch binderhub markdown.

  • Push the update to your GitHub repo.

  • Navigate to your GitHub repo and click on the badge to launch binderhub!

Exercise 5:#

Task

  • Use BinderHub to share the more advanced ts_emergency package you created in the exercises.