Wednesday June 12, 2019

Labs
Feature

Your lab web pages should load faster.

Feature

Your lab tools should start faster.

Monday May 27, 2019

Labs
Feature

You can now see announcements about upcoming maintenance.

Bugfix

You should again be able to sign into Labs with your LinkedIn profile.

Wednesday May 22, 2019

Labs
Bugfix

We fixed a common cause of 502 errors.

Monday April 29, 2019

Labs
Feature

Your Lab should now start faster.

Tuesday April 16, 2019

JupyterLab
Feature

You can now do optical character recognition with Tesseract.

Feature

You can now create with with ipywidgets.

Bugfix

You should now be able to download your JupyterLab notebooks again.

Labs
Feature

You can now delete your Labs account.

Tuesday March 19, 2019

JupyterLab
Feature

You can now do media capture with JupyterLab.

My Blockchain
Deprecation

We will shortly remove My Blockchain from Labs to streamline our infrastructure.

OpenRefine
Deprecation

We will shortly remove OpenRefine from Labs to streamline our infrastructure.

Zeppelin Notebooks
Bugfix

Your Zeppelin should now start more reliably.

Seahorse
Deprecation

We will shortly remove Seahorse from Labs to streamline our infrastructure.

Labs
Bugfix

Launching your first lab is now much faster.

Friday February 01, 2019

JupyterLab
Feature

You can now work with Watson Machine Learning CLI.

Tuesday January 01, 2019

JupyterLab
Feature

You can now work with Db2 database through ibmDbR, r-jdbc, and r-odbc.

Saturday December 01, 2018

JupyterLab for IBM PowerAI
Feature

You now have spellcheck.

Feature

You now have JupyterLab tutorials.

Feature

You now have GitHub integration.

Feature

You now have Cognos Dashboard Embedded.

Feature

You now have OpenCV.

JupyterLab
Feature

You now have scikit-learn.

Feature

You now have imageio.

Feature

You now have SystemML.

Monday October 01, 2018

JupyterLab
Feature

You now have TorchVision 0.2.1.

Friday August 31, 2018

JupyterLab
Feature

You now have Anaconda 5.2.0.

Feature

You now have PyTorch 0.4.1.

RStudio IDE
Feature

You now have the latest R 3.5.1.

Feature

You now have the latest RStudio 1.1.456.

Feature

You now have the latest Spark 2.3.1.

Feature

You now have the leaflet package.

Monday July 09, 2018

JupyterLab
Feature

You now have opencv 3.4.1 so you can work with graphics.

Feature

You now have watson-developer-cloud 1.4.1.

Feature

You now have Cognos Dashboard Embedded.

Friday June 01, 2018

JupyterLab for IBM PowerAI
New tool

JupyterLab for IBM PowerAI

JupyterLab
Feature

You now have TensorFlow 1.8.0.

Feature

You can now export to PDF.

Feature

You now have keras 2.1.5.

Feature

You now have an R kernel with Spark.

Wednesday May 02, 2018

JupyterLab
Feature

You can now work with ipython-sql and ibm-db-sa.

Feature

You now have a Scala kernel with Spark.

Feature

You now have boto3 and ibm-cos-sdk for file uploads.

Feature

You now have GitHub integration.

Feature

You now have tutorials to help you get started with JupyterLab.

Thursday April 26, 2018

IBM PowerAI Vision
New tool

IBM PowerAI Vision

JupyterLab
Feature

Your now have the latest JupyterLab 0.32.1.

Monday April 09, 2018

JupyterLab
Feature

Added a spellchecker.

RStudio IDE
Feature

You now have the latest Spark 2.3.

Friday March 23, 2018

Labs
Feature

You now have a friendlier and faster starting lab experience.

Friday March 16, 2018

My Blockchain
New tool

My Blockchain based on Hyperledger Compose 0.18.2.

Wednesday March 07, 2018

JupyterLab
JupyterLab

You now have the latest JupyterLab 0.31.12.

JupyterLab

You now have graphviz and pydotplus Conda packages preloaded.

Wednesday March 07, 2018

Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter

You can now use pandas 0.22.0.

Tuesday January 30, 2018

Zeppelin Notebooks
Zeppelin

You now have Zeppelin 0.7.3 with all the latest packages.

Thursday January 25, 2018

RStudio IDE
Feature

You now have the latest R Studio IDE with Spark 2.2.

Labs
Feature

You can now use Labs with Safari and IE.

Thursday December 14, 2017

Labs
Feature 2345

You now have a streamlined login and signup experience.

Friday November 10, 2017

JupyterLab
New tool

JupyterLab

Thursday October 05, 2017

Jupyter for IBM PowerAI
New tool

Jupyter for IBM PowerAI

Wednesday August 09, 2017

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 2111

Jupyter Notebook is now based on Ubuntu 16.04.

Friday July 28, 2017

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 2071

You now have Python 3.6.2 as your Python 3 kernel for Jupyter

Feature 1984

You now can use Tensorflow 1.2 with your Python notebooks.

Bug 676

Fixed a bug where packages for Python 3 using Numpy would not import.

Monday June 19, 2017

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 1801

You now have the latest version of matplotlib (2.0.2) in Python 2.

Wednesday April 12, 2017

RStudio IDE
Feature 1573

You can now publish your markdown files to RPubs.

Monday April 10, 2017

Tuesday April 04, 2017

Jupyter Notebooks
Bug 542

Fixed a bug where jupyter would not start if users had too much data.

Tuesday March 21, 2017

Jupyter Notebooks
Bug 537

Fixed a bug where PySpark kernel would keep dying.

Monday February 27, 2017

Labs
Bug 526

Fixed a bug where users updating their tool would lose the notebook they were trying to view.

Thursday February 23, 2017

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 1533

You can now use Tensorflow 1.0

Tuesday January 17, 2017

Jupyter Notebooks
Bug 483

Jupyter's Scala interpreter has now been updated to Apache Toree

Tuesday November 08, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Bug 465

Jupyter now supports rcviz

Friday October 07, 2016

Labs
Feature 1219

My Data now starts instantly

Monday September 19, 2016

RStudio IDE
Feature 1159

Version control is now enabled in RStudio

Labs
Feature 1058

You can now use SystemT as a tool in Data Scientist Workbench

Friday August 05, 2016

Labs
Feature 1019

You can now check service Status / Disruptions / Outages

Feature 1016

KB - learn how to access Apache Spark service on Bluemix (https://support.labs.cognitiveclass.ai/knowledgebase/articles/935319-accessing-spark-service-on-bluemix)

Feature 947

You can now register and login with your Weibo ID

Monday July 25, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 635

Learn to connect to dashDB using ibmdbR in R Jupyter

Thursday July 21, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 996

IPython for Jupyter is upgraded to v5.0

Labs
Feature 1008

You can now submit Spark jobs to Spark as a Service on Bluemix

Friday July 08, 2016

RStudio IDE
Feature 605

ibmdbR pre-installed in R Studio IDE for in-database analytics in IBM databases

Labs
Feature 667

It is now easier to reset your password

Wednesday June 29, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 554

ibmdbR pre-installed to allow connections from Jupyter R notebooks to IBM databases. Click here to see how!

Feature 876

You can now use dplyr in R to work with dataframes in Jupyter

Feature 966

You can now use OpenCV 2.4 for computer vision in Python 2 with Jupyter

Feature 287

You can now use matplotlib 1.5.1 for visualization in Jupyter with Python 2

Feature 968

You can now use matplotlib 1.5.1 for visualization in Jupyter with Python 3

RStudio IDE
Feature 857

You can now use dplyr in R to work with dataframes in R Studio IDE

Friday June 24, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 878

You now have the latest Jupyter 4.2.1

Feature 953

You can now use MathJax 2.6.1 to work with LaTeX, MathML, and AsciiMath in Jupyter

Feature 965

You can now use Brunel 1.2 for visualization

RStudio IDE
Feature 952

You can now export markdown documents in pdf from RStudio IDE

Labs
Feature 879

You no longer need to sign in to support.labs.cognitiveclass.ai. You will be signed in automatically.

Feature 932

You can now register and login with your Cognitive Class id

Feature 963

You can now browse Data Scientist Workbench in Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) !

Monday June 20, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 957

SystemML has been updated to 0.10.0

Feature 940

You can now use !pip to install Python 3 packages in Jupyter

Feature 897

Your Python packages are now preserved after an update!

Feature 939

You can now use all the same packages like basemap, ibm-db, matplotlib, mysqlclient, nltk, psycopg2, scikit-learn, and scipy with Python 3

RStudio IDE
Feature 630

RStudio IDE updated to v0.99.902

Labs
Feature 935

You can now register and login with your Facebook id

Feature 933

You can now register and login with your Github id

Feature 934

You can now register and login with your Google id

Feature 949

You can now register and login with your LinkedIn id

Sunday June 05, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 815

Content in welcome page of Jupyter Notebook is translated to Chinese

Feature 906

I can now use the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (rgdal)

Feature 927

You can now parse JSON super-fast with ijson and yaql

Feature 930

You can now use the latest TensorFlow (0.8)

RStudio IDE
Feature 907

I can now use the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (rgdal)

Seahorse
Feature 929

You can now visually compose Spark applications with Seahorse

Labs
Feature 916

You can now read popular Data Science blogs on http://blogs.mydatascience.org/

Feature 476

You can now login with your e-mail address or username

Tuesday May 31, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 915

You can now work with big, complex notebooks in Jupyter super-fast!

Labs
Feature 716

You can now set your country in your profile

Feature 904

It now takes two minutes to update your workbench!!

Saturday May 14, 2016

Labs
Feature 714

We now have a profile page!

Feature 889

You can now browse the Data Scientist Workbench in Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, and Pirate! Yarr!

Friday April 15, 2016

Labs
Feature 670

You can now register for a workbench in China

Feature 671

https://my.DataScientistWorkbench.cn - DSWB in now in China!

Feature 691

More prominent Support/Feedback button

Friday April 01, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 620

Prepare and clean your data using semantic analysis (sparkling) in Python

Wednesday March 30, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 603

Sparkling.Data package is available in Scala notebook

Feature 613

Updated pip to version 8.1.0

Feature 642

Python3 is now available (BETA)

Zeppelin Notebooks
Feature 572

Learn to use sparkling.data to clean, prepare, and wrangle data

Feature 640

You can use scikit-learn in Python notebooks

Monday March 21, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 610

Graphviz package is available

Labs
Feature 590

My Data file manager - click on "My Data" to explore

Feature 632

Four new sample data sets available in My Data

Monday March 14, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 611

Welcome page easier to navigate

Feature 575

Clean, prepare, and wrangle data in a Jupyter Python notebook using the sparkling.data package

Monday March 07, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 523

Learn to access MySQL from Jupyter with Scala

Feature 540

Open Jupyter notebooks by simply clicking on the link that someone shared with you

Feature 510

ibmdbPy pre-installed to allow connections from Python notebooks to IBM databases

Zeppelin Notebooks
Feature 573

Sparkling.Data library is available in a Zeppelin Scala notebook

Wednesday March 02, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 502

Learn to access PostgreSQL from Jupyter with R

Feature 506

Learn TensorFlow with Python

Feature 560

ggplot2.SparkR package is now available

RStudio IDE
Feature 561

ggplot2.SparkR package is now available for plotting huge data sets

Labs
Feature 564

Wikipedia click data is now available in the DSWB Spark Sandbox

Friday February 19, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 450

Learn to work with Hadoop data using SQL from Jupyter Python, R, Scala

Feature 501

Learn to access relational databases (MySQL) from Jupyter with Python

Feature 522

Learn to access relational databases (MySQL) from Jupyter with R

Feature 524

Learn to access relational databases (Postgres) from Jupyter with Python

Feature 503

Learn to access relational databases (dashDB) from Jupyter with R

Feature 532

Learn to access relational databases (dashDB) from Jupyter with Python

Feature 533

Learn to access relational databases (dashDB) from Jupyter with Scala

Feature 519

RMySQL is now available to connect to MySQL database from Jupyter with R

Feature 529

RPostgreSQL is now available to connect to PostgreSQL from Jupyter with R

Feature 553

TensorFlow is updated to 0.6.0 from Jupyter with Python

Feature 558

cURL R package is now available from Jupyter with R

RStudio IDE
Feature 556

cURL is available to help download files

Feature 557

cURL R package is available to help download files in R

Tuesday February 16, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 510

IbmdbPy pre-installed to allow full exploitation of in-database analytics in IBM dashDB and DB2

Feature 547

Submit Jupyter Python notebook to Spark Cluster for execution

RStudio IDE
Feature 534

ggmap package available in R Studio IDE

Feature 535

mapproj package available in R Studio IDE

Labs
Feature 495

Sample data sets preloaded in my data folder

Feature 552

Data Scientist Workbench now has a shared Spark Cluster sandbox

Friday February 05, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 485

Learn to access relational databases from Jupyter with R, Python, and Scala

Feature 513

psycopg2 package is available for connecting to PostgreSQL

Feature 514

MySQLdb package is now available in Python Notebooks

Feature 515

RJDBC now pre-installed in R notebooks

Feature 518

Official MySQL connector package is now available in Python Notebooks

Zeppelin Notebooks
Feature 467

New introductory tutorial for Scala

Feature 497

matplotlib basemap library now available for Python

RStudio IDE
Feature 505

Learn how to access R Shiny

Labs
Feature 466

New and improved experience on Data Scientist Workbench

Friday January 29, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 469

Learn to run parallelized R jobs in Hadoop (Big R) from R Jupyter notebook

Feature 449

Learn to work with Hadoop data using SQL from Jupyter Python, R, Scala

RStudio IDE
Feature 478

rstan now available in R Studio IDE

Friday January 22, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 448

I can access Big SQL data from an R Jupyter notebook

Feature 449

I can access Big SQL data from a Scala Jupyter notebook

Zeppelin Notebooks
Feature 461

New and improved tutorial for Python

Labs
Feature 446

When you see an error, we prompt you to open a ticket

Saturday January 16, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 352

You can now submit R jobs to a Hadoop cluster (Big R)

Feature 414

Learn how to work with Hadoop data using SQL in your Jupyter notebook

Feature 437

Tutorials can now be run independently of each other. You can skip directly to the tutorial you want.

Zeppelin Notebooks
Feature 421

Parse CSV files using spark-csv in Scala

Feature 433

Learn how to use Python on Zeppelin with our new "Zeppelin Tutorial for Python" note

Labs
Feature 67

You can now resume your hibernated workbench at the click of a button!

Feature 452

Workbench Top Menu Bar now navigates to all my tools!

Feature 455

You can now update your workbench at the click of a button!

Friday January 08, 2016

Jupyter Notebooks
Feature 329

R - Update Spark to v1.6.0

Feature 330

Python - Update Spark to v1.6.0

Feature 331

Scala - Update Spark to v1.5.2

Zeppelin Notebooks
Feature 404

Enable Zeppelin Notebooks

RStudio IDE
Feature 391

Upgrade R to v3.2.3

Feature 417

RStudio: Shiny package

Labs
Feature 435

Add Changelog! That's ME!