How to Install Anaconda on Windows 🧑🏻‍💻

How to Install Anaconda on Windows Step-by-Step. The data science and machine learning community uses Anaconda as the primary and most popular distribution platform for Python and R programming languages because it makes installing programs like PySpark, pandas, Numpy, SciPy, and many more easier.

Steps to Install Anaconda on Windows

Step 1. Download Anaconda windows version

Step 2. Install Anaconda

Step 3. Create Anaconda Environment

Step 4. Install and Run Jupyter Notebook

1. Download & Install Anaconda Distribution for Windows

Follow the below step-by-step instructions to install Anaconda distribution on windows.

1.1 Download Anaconda Distribution

Go to https://www.anaconda.com/ and select Anaconda Individual Edition to download the latest version of Anaconda for windows. This downloads the .exe file to the windows download folder.

1.2 Install Anaconda on Windows

Double click the .exe file to start the Anaconda installation, follow the below steps to complete the installation on windows

Select as per your requirement

2. Create Anaconda Environment

A conda environment is a directory that contains a specific collection of conda packages that you have installed. For example, you may have one environment with NumPy 1.7 and its dependencies, and another environment with NumPy 1.6 for legacy testing.

2.1 Open Anaconda Navigator

Anaconda Navigator is a UI application where you can control the Anaconda packages, environment etc, Open it from windows start or by searching it.

2.2 Create an Environment

Although it’s not required, it’s advised to construct an environment before moving farther. This allows for total separation of various package installs for the various projects you might be working on. You can also use an environment that you already have.

select + Create icon at the bottom of the screen to create an Anaconda environment.

3. Install and Launch Jupyter Notebook

Once you create the anaconda environment, go back to the Home page on Anaconda Navigator and install Jupyter Notebook from an application on the right panel.

It will take a few seconds to install Jupyter to your environment, once the install completes, you can open Jupyter from the same screen or by accessing Anaconda Navigator -> Environments -> your environment (mine pandas-tutorial) -> select Open With Jupyter Notebook.

This opens up Jupyter Notebook in the default browser.

Now select New -> Notebook. On Jupyter, each cell is a statement, so you can run each cell independently when there are no dependencies on previous cells.