Data science on a chromebook
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Data science on a chromebook
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Re: Data science on a chromebook
#2Chromebooks are going to be awesome whenever Webassembly comes to maturity.
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#3Instead of showing people what can be done with a restricted computer, why not encourage them to use non-restricted computers instead? Data science on a Chromebook that has Linux installed would be better.
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#4Instead of showing people what can be done with a restricted computer, why not encourage them to use non-restricted computers instead? Data science on a Chromebook that has Linux installed would be better.
A seatmate on a recent long flight had an Asus Chromebook with Linux side-loaded via Crouton, and was doing exploratory data analysis in Jupyter notebooks (mostly using R). Response seemed reasonably snappy. The trade-off for him was long- battery life and a laptop he wouldn't cry over if it didn't survive the trip, vs. being restricted to doing analysis on (relatively, for him) small data samples.
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#5At $20/mo in DigitalOcean services that are only required if you're running on a chromebook, why not just run on an inexpensive PC? It's seemingly long-term more expensive to do it this way.
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#6Instead of showing people what can be done with a restricted computer, why not encourage them to use non-restricted computers instead? Data science on a Chromebook that has Linux installed would be better.
A seatmate on a recent long flight had an Asus Chromebook with Linux side-loaded via Crouton, and was doing exploratory data analysis in Jupyter notebooks (mostly using R). Response seemed reasonably snappy. The trade-off for him was long- battery life and a laptop he wouldn't cry over if it didn't survive the trip, vs. being restricted to doing analysis on (relatively, for him) small data samples.
I use mine full time for systems eng and devOps type tasks. All GUI tasks are handled by chrome with the exception of my password safe which is an android app. I use crouton for a shell and ssh to local host with the ssh extension.
I love it, it's clean, lite, updated all the time. It's the reverse of my old workflow which was a browser on linux. Now I run linux on a browswer (same thing really) and google handles drivers, battery life, copy/paste, font rendering, graphics card management/ x11 configuration. . . . All the things that suck or take real work about using a linux laptop.
Super fast setup too. I can wipe it when I'm going somewhere and have it up and fully ready to use in 10-15 minutes. (mostly I don't, but there are times when that seems like the best option.)
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#7At $20/mo in DigitalOcean services that are only required if you're running on a chromebook, why not just run on an inexpensive PC? It's seemingly long-term more expensive to do it this way.
A few reasons come to mind: battery life, portability, and being able to easily upscale/downscale.
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#8At $20/mo in DigitalOcean services that are only required if you're running on a chromebook, why not just run on an inexpensive PC? It's seemingly long-term more expensive to do it this way.
From the article: "One of the best parts about the fully cloudy/Chrome OS requirement is this means that from the user perspective everything is always in sync. I log off the computer at home, come to work, log on and its like I’m on the same computer." So using a single computer wouldn't provide that, unless you took it with you which the author would apparently prefer not to do.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
A seatmate on a recent long flight had an Asus Chromebook with Linux side-loaded via Crouton, and was doing exploratory data analysis in Jupyter notebooks (mostly using R). Response seemed reasonably snappy. The trade-off for him was long- battery life and a laptop he wouldn't cry over if it didn't survive the trip, vs. being restricted to doing analysis on (relatively, for him) small data samples.
I use mine full time for systems eng and devOps type tasks. All GUI tasks are handled by chrome with the exception of my password safe which is an android app. I use crouton for a shell and ssh to local host with the ssh extension. I love it, it's clean, lite, updated all the time. It's the reverse of my old workflow which was a browser on linux. Now I run linux on a browswer (same thing really) and google handles dr…
The battery life on my Chromebook jumped from 10 hours to 15 hours when I replaced ChromeOS with Linux. Trading all of that Javascript for C makes a huge difference on battery life.
Re: Data science on a chromebook
#10It's also very simple and quick to run a Jupyter notebook on your VPS, accessing it from your browser. It's how I do deep learning work from my Air. There are AMIs with tensorflow+ already installed.