Virtual Environments for Data Science: Running Python and Jupyter with Pipenv

Setting up a virtual environment for Python.

Edward Krueger
Towards Data Science
7 min readFeb 12, 2020

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By: Edward Krueger Data Scientist and Instructor and Douglas Franklin Teaching Assistant and Technical Writer.

In this article, we’ll talk about virtual environments and why they are useful. You’ll learn how to set up a virtual environment in Pipenv for Python. You’ll also learn how to run a Jupyter kernel out of a Pipenv environment!

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