scratchpad

0. Fork this repo, so you can save changes across class sessions.

1. In Google Colab, create a new notebook.

2. Paste the following commands in a code chunk, and run it:

! git clone https://github.com/<your GitHub username>/scratchpad
%run ./scratchpad/get_data.py

This will download and extract the course data for you.

3. When you're done, use Save a Copy in GitHub to save your notebook back to your scratchpad repo as nb_2026_mm_dd.ipynb.