Microsoft provides a library of notebooks to help you learn other tools, including using Python with its CNTK deep learning framework and building and training Azure ML models.

In all cases the Azure Machine Learning Python SDK is a required additional component. Azure Notebooks is a Jupyter Notebooks service that is hosted in the Azure cloud.

The SDK improvements give improvements to Azure Notebooks. These can be installed anywhere you can run Python.

Azure Notebooks currently support Python 2, Python 3, R, and F# kernels. For some reason, SQL is not listed in the online documentation, but I have installed and used both a Spark and SQL kernel.

Microsoft Azure Notebooks is available free of charge and represents yet another way for people to learn programming and data science outside of traditional schooling.

The notebooks come pre-packaged with support for the Azure Machine Learning Python SDK and run in what the company describes as a “secure, enterprise-ready environment.” ...

PyTorch 1.2 was released earlier this month. The deep learning framework has now been integrated with some Azure services by Microsoft, along with helpful notes as to its usage on the cloud platform.

However, ensuring Python has everything it needs for a given notebook tends to be super painful. If you plan on distributing, this becomes another layer of issues in ensuring everyone has the ...