You need a project to store the notebook and data asset. You can use your sandbox project or create a project. Follow these steps to open a project and add a data asset to the project:

1. From the Navigation Menu , choose Projects > View all projects

2. Open your sandbox project. If you want to use a new project:

   1. Click New project.

   2. Select Create an empty project.

   3. Enter a name and optional description for the project.

   4. Choose an existing object storage service instance or create a new one.

   5. Click Create.

3. From the Navigation Menu , click Resource hub.

4. Search for an interesting data set, and select the data set.

5. Click Add to project.

6. Select the project from the list, and click Add.

7. After the data set is added, click View Project.

8. In the project, click the Assets tab to see the data set.

For more information, see Creating a project.

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Follow these steps to create a new notebook in your project.

1. In your project, on the Assets tab, click New asset > Work with data and models in Python or R notebooks.

2. Type a name and description (optional).

3. Select a runtime environment for this notebook.

4. Click Create. Wait for the notebook editor to load.

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Now you can access the data asset in your notebook that you uploaded to your project earlier. Follow these steps to load data into a data frame:

1. Click in an empty code cell in your notebook.

2. Click the Code snippets icon ().

3. In the side pane, click Read data.

4. Click Select data from project.

5. Locate the data asset from the project, and click Select.

6. In the Load as drop-down list, select the load option that you prefer.

7. Click Insert code to cell. The code to read and load the data asset is inserted into the cell.

8. Click the Run icon to run your code. The first few rows of your data set will display.

9. To save a version of your notebook, click File > Save Version. You can also just save your notebook with File > Save.

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Follow these steps to locate the saved notebook on the Assets tab, and edit the notebook:

1. In the project navigation trail, click your project name to return to your project.

2. Click the Assets tab to find the notebook.

3. When you click the notebook, it will open in READ ONLY mode.

4. To edit the notebook, click the pencil icon .

5. Click the Information icon to open the Information panel.

6. On the General tab, edit the name and description of the notebook.

7. Click the Environment tab to see how you can change the environment used to run the notebook or update the runtime status to either stop and restart.

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Follow these steps to create a link to the notebook to share with colleagues:

1. Click the Share icon if you would like to share the read-only view of the notebook.

2. Click to turn on the Share with anyone who has the link toggle button.

3. Select what content you would like to share through a link or social media.

4. Click the Copy icon to copy a direct link to this notebook.

5. Click Close.

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Follow these steps to create a job to schedule the notebook to run at a specific time or repeat based on a schedule:

1. Click the Jobs icon, and select Create a job.
   

2. Provide the name and description of the job, and click Next.

3. Select the notebook version and environment runtime, and click Next.

4. (Optional) Click the toggle button to schedule a run. Specify the date, time and if you would like the job to repeat, and click Next.

5. (Optional) click the toggle button to receive notifications for this job, and click Next.

6. Review the details, and click either Create (to create the job, but not run the job immediately) or Create and run (to run the job immediately).

7. The job will display in the Jobs tab in the project.