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These instructions will walk you through installing the required Data Science software stack for the UBC Master of Data Science program. Before starting, ensure that your laptop meets our program requirements:

runs one of the following operating systems: macOS 10.15.X (Catalina), Ubuntu 20.04, Windows 10 Professional, Enterprise or Education; version 2004.
- Windows 10 Home is not sufficient as not all the software required for the program can be installed on that OS. Click here to download Windows 10 Education for free from UBC.
- When installing Ubuntu, checking the box “Install third party…” will (among other things) install proprietary drivers, which can be helpful for wifi and graphics cards.
can connect to networks via a wireless connection for on campus work
has access to an internet connection that is fast and stable enough for video calling and conducting online quizzes
has at least 50 GB disk space available
has at least 8 GB of RAM
uses a 64-bit CPU
is at most 6 years old at the start of the program (4 years old or newer is recommended)
uses English as the default language
student user has full administrative access to the computer

To view Screenshots running with the internationalized example app on macOS and linux in the cloud see: To view the images generated by Screenshots during a run on travis see: To view a similar run on windows see: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mmcc007/screenshots. Download Screenshot Creator for macOS 10.12 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. ‎Create beautiful, engaging, screenshots for your apps and maximise your downloads. Screenshot Creator makes it easy for you to design your own professional looking screenshots that will impress and inform your users; no design skills required! To move the selection, press and hold Space bar while dragging. To cancel taking the screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key. To take the screenshot, release your mouse or track-pad button. If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your Desktop. To capture a window or menu. Original app: github.com/ipcjs/ScreenshotTile. Open Source license is GNU GPLv3. Note: 🎦 When you take a screenshot, the 'Google Cast' icon will appear in the status bar and it will be visible in.

Students’ whose laptops do not meet the requirements specified above will not be able to receive technical assistance from the MDS team in troubleshooting installation issues.

Installation notes

If you have already installed Git, Latex, or any of the R or Python related packagesplease uninstall these and follow the instructions below to reinstall them(make sure to also remove any user configuration files and backup them if desired).In order to be able to support you effectivelyand minimize setup issues and software conflicts,we require all students to install the software stack the same way.

In all the sections below,if you are presented with the choice to download either a 64-bit (also called x64)or a 32-bit (also called x86) version of the application always choose the 64-bit version.

Once you have completed these installation instructions,make sure to follow the post-installation notes at the endto check that all software is setup correctly.

UBC Student Email

Please sign up for a UBC Student Email. This account will also grant you access to a range of UBC services, including Microsoft Teams and OneDrive. To do so navigate to https://it.ubc.ca/services/email-voice-internet/ubc-student-email-service and follow the instructions under “Get Started”.

Web browser

In MDS we will be using many tools that work most reliably on Google Chrome and Firefox (including our online quiz software), so we recommend that you use one of these browsers.

To install Chrome, go to https://www.google.com/chrome/, click on “Download Chrome” and follow the instructions on the website to finish the installation.
To install Firefox, go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/, click on “Download Firefox” and follow the instructions on the website to finish the installation.

LastPass password manager

Some MDS courses (e.g. the capstone project) use the LastPass password manager to share credentials. Although we will not cover privacy and security topics until the second semester of the program, we recommend that you use a password manager such as LastPass to help you create strong passwords and store them securely, and to facilitate online authentication. You can sign up for a free LastPass account here: https://lastpass.com/create-account.php. We also recommend installing the LastPass Chrome or Firefox browser extension available here: https://lastpass.com/misc_download2.php.

Slack

For our MDS courses and program announcements, correspondence and course forums we use the communication tool Slack. Slack can be accessed via the web browser, however we strongly recommend installing the Slack App. The Slack app can be installed from the Mac App Store, or from the Slack website. Installation instructions from the Slack website install method are here: https://slack.com/intl/en-ca/help/articles/207677868-Download-Slack-for-Mac

Bash shell

Apple recently changed the Mac default shell in the Terminal to Zsh, however, we aim to teach with the same shell across all three operating systems we support, which is the Bash shell. Thus, we ask that you change the default shell in your Terminal to Bash by opening the Terminal (how to video) and typing:

You will have to quit all instances of open Terminals and then restart the Terminal for this to take effect.

Visual Studio Code

Installing

The open-source text editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is both a powerful text editor and a full-blown Python IDE, which we will use for more complex analysis. You can download and install the macOS version of VS Code from the VS code website https://code.visualstudio.com/download. Once the download is finished, click “Open with Archive utility”, and move the extracted VS Code application from “Downloads” to “Applications”.In addition to reading the getting started instructions, be sure to follow the “Launching from the command line” steps as well.

You can test that VS code is installed and can be opened from Terminal by restarting terminal and typing the following command:

you should see something like this if you were successful:

Note: If you get an error message such as -bash: code: command not found, but you can see the VS Code application has been installed, then something went wrong with setting up the launch from the command line. Try following these instructions again, in particular you might want to try the described manual method of adding VS Code to your path.

GitHub

In MDS we will use the publicly available GitHub.com as well as an Enterprise version of GitHub hosted here at UBC, GitHub.ubc.ca. Please follow the set-up instructions for both below.

GitHub.com

GitHub.ubc.ca

To add you to the MDS organization on Github.ubc.ca we need you to login to Github.ubc.ca using your CWL credentials.

This step is required for

being able to store your work
all homework submission and grading
working collaboratively

Git

We will be using the command line version of Git as well as Git through RStudio and JupyterLab. Some of the Git commands we will use are only available since Git 2.23, so if you’re Git is older than this version, we ask you to update it using the Xcode command line tools (not all of Xcode), which includes Git.

Open Terminal and type the following command to install Xcode command line tools:

After installation, in terminal type the following to ask for the version:

you should see something like this (does not have to be the exact same version) if you were successful:

Note: If you run into trouble, please see that Install Git > Mac OS section from Happy Git and GitHub for the useR for additional help or strategies for Git installation.

Configuring Git user info

Next, we need to

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