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You don’t need a fancy PC to get started with data science and machine learning.
Almost all cloud platforms use some kind of Jupyter-like notebooks and you can run all your code in cloud-based notebooks without even worrying about setting up an environment locally.
In this blog post, I am going to share 5 ways you can do data science in the cloud. Each of these platforms allow you to do this completely for free and they each work really well. The 2 biggest upsides of using cloud platforms for data science are speed of set up and collaboration.