Setting Up Jupyter Notebooks in Google Colab with Google Drive

Now that you've got your first Jupyter notebook open, let's get all the other Jupyter notebooks, data files, and images we'll need in this course uploaded to Google Drive and easily openable in Google Colab. So the way we're going to do that is you're going to go to Google Drive—this is my Google Drive homepage—and you're going to navigate from there on the left-hand side over here to My Drive. When you do that, you're going to upload your whole folder to this My Drive.

Now, it's very important that it be in My Drive. "My Drive" should appear at the top with no other folders. We want to upload directly to My Drive, and that's because all of our file paths in our notebooks assume that this is the location for your Python Machine Learning Bootcamp folder. I'll show you that at work.

We're going to upload this folder. We'll go over to the left in Drive, click New, then select Folder Upload (not File Upload). We're going to upload the whole folder at once.

So make sure that your folder… It should open up a little dialog box like this. Make sure that Python Machine Learning Bootcamp is the selected folder. Don't make the same mistake I did when I opened this.

Don't have Start or Final selected or any of those. You want the selected part to be Python Machine Learning Bootcamp, the whole folder. And then you're going to choose Upload.

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It might display "Select Folder" here. You should trust the site and upload all 101 files. Now, it's going to take a moment, but we won’t wait for the upload to complete.

Python Machine Learning Bootcamp should be the name of the folder in My Drive. All of our files will assume that you have a Python Machine Learning Bootcamp folder in My Drive directly. Once those are all uploaded, you should be able to get started that way.

You should be able to go into the Start folder, and there is one—here’s the one we've already got open—but let's open it this way. We'll be able to open all of them in this way from now on without having to open them individually. We'll just go to Google Drive, navigate to the folder, and just double-click on that file.

And now that we've connected Google Drive and Google Colab when we ran this line initially, now that we've done that once, it's automatically set to open up any Python notebooks in Google Drive from now on. So again, the only thing to be careful of in this setup is to make sure that, in My Drive, you have a folder called Python Machine Learning Bootcamp, with all our files directly inside it. And that, again, it should be… The path should be My Drive, and then Python Machine Learning Bootcamp with no other folders in between.

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Don't make another folder and put Python Machine Learning Bootcamp in there. It's a very easy mistake to make. Try not to over-organize.

It's already organized for you, and adding another layer of organization will mean you'll have to do a lot more work on all the Jupyter notebooks to make sure that the file paths work. All right, that's your setup—getting all of our files into your system. We are now going to be able to jump back and talk about what a Python notebook is and start working with them.