Colaboratory is a Chrome App developed by a joint team consisting of Google Research, Matthew Turk, and the IPython/Jupyter. It works like a Jupyter notebook. Colaboratory merges many open source packages with Google technologies which facilitates collaboration and reduces the burden of setting up the working environment.
To check what packages Colaboratory has, I have done a simple test by importing packages. Here is what I found.
Data Processing Packages. Four commonly used data processing/analysis packages like numpy and pandas come in handy
- Pandas
- Numpy
- Scipy
- Statsmodels
Visualization Packages. I have tested four packages and three of them are available. The one tested but not found is Bokeh.
- matplotlib
- seaborn
- plotly
Machine Learning Packages. I have tested five common python machine learning packages and two of them are available. Theano, Caffe and XGBoost are not available.
- sklearn
- tensorflow
Image Processing Packages. Two packages Pillow and Skimage are available. OpenCV, one of my favorite packages is not available.
- Pillow
- Skimage
Natural Language Processing Packages. Only NLTK was tested and it is available.
- NLTK
Packages do not exist
- OpenCV
- Bokeh
- XGBoost
- Theano
- Caffe
Please check the notebook for detailed information.