Google Colab Setup Guide
Using Google Colab for Text Analysis
Overview
In this 5-day intensive course, we will use Python through Google colaboratory, browser based environment that requires no installation on your local computer.
You can follow the step here to enable Colaboratory through your Tohoku Univ. gmail account.
The following steps should be completed before we start grammar analysis on Day 4.
Log in to your google account.
You will need a google account, so log in to your google account.
Go to Google Drive
Go to google drive.
Hit new and find connect more apps
Search Colaboratory on the marketplace
Install Colaboratory
Click on Colaboratory, and hit install button. 
Hit continue when it prompts permission.
Follow the instruction of the pop-up instruction.
Installation success!!
Now you can create google colab notebook from Google Drive.
Now you can create a new google colab notebook.
Try it out — open this Colab notebook and run it
Before Day 1, please confirm the built-in LLM works on your Tohoku Google account. Open this Colab notebook and try running these cells:
- Open the link, signed in with your Tohoku Google account.
- File → Save a copy in Drive — this gives you your own copy to run (the same thing you’ll do for the real course notebooks).
- In your copy, choose Runtime → Run all.
- When it finishes, copy the final ✅ / ❌ message and report it to the instructor.
If you see ✅ SUCCESS, you’re all set. If you see ❌ FAILED, paste the whole message (including the error) to the google classroom so we can help.
Prefer to run on your own machine instead? See Python Setup — Run Locally.