An Introduction to Google Colaboratory

[anjalibhavan]

• Abstract (2-3 lines) This talk will be a hands-on tutorial about Google Colaboratory (known more popularly as just Google Colab) - an introduction, why it is needed, how to set it up, configure it for GPU usage and how to run your first program on it.

• Brief Description and Contents to be covered

  1. Introduction: What is Google Colab, brief history, why it is needed, advantages
  2. GPU - what is it, why needed, its availability in Google Colab
  3. Tutorial: Accessing Google Colab, creating a notebook and mounting Drive, configuring GPU, running first program.

• Pre-requisites for the talk Knowledge of Python would be a plus, although beginners are welcome.

• Time required for the talk 15-20 minutes

• Link to slides There's no need because it's a hands-on tutorial. If it's needed I'll make some.

• Will you be doing hands-on demo as well? Yes

• About yourself I'm a third year undergraduate at Delhi Technological University. I have been involved in numerous applied machine learning and NLP-based research projects and endeavors over the past year, and am also a member of PyLadies Delhi.

• Are you comfortable if the talk is recorded and uploaded to PyData Delhi's YouTube channel ? Yes

[shagunsodhani]

Hey @anjalibhavan thank you for the proposal. Looking forward to the talk.

[anjalibhavan]

Thank you! Would this be for the Pydata Delhi conference in August?

[shagunsodhani]

I think @MSanKeys963 should answer that.

[MSanKeys963]

No @anjalibhavan. These talks issues are for the meetup. For the conference, we will open the CFP separately.

[anjalibhavan]

Oh alright! The next meetup is on 11th, if I'm correct? My availability on that day is not yet certain, but I would like to give this talk in maybe the next after this in case I'm unable to make it on 11th.

[MSanKeys963]

Yes, the next meetup is on 11th. But I think we already have outstanding speakers for that. You can RSVP here.

[anjalibhavan]

Oh alright. I'll give a talk in a later meetup then. :)

[MSanKeys963]

Hi, @anjalibhavan. Can you update the slides, please?

[MSanKeys963]

Hi @anjalibhavan. Would you like to deliver this in our upcoming meetup?

[MSanKeys963]

Soft reminder, @anjalibhavan.

[anjalibhavan]

Hi. Apologies for not responding on time. I won't be free to attend the upcoming meetup, sorry. I will post another talk issue as well later, hopefully to speak at some other meetup in the future.