To set up an enviroment for this tutorial use

$ conda env create -f environment.yml

or

$ conda create -n mpl-tutorial -c  anaconda matplotlib pandas pytables h5py ipython scipy python=3.6

for *nix

$ source activate mpl-tutorial

for windows

$ activate mpl-tutorial

Try updating conda in case you are encountering a bug that has been fixed.

$ conda update conda

Try this command (UNIX and OSX only) to ensure that the shell has not cached an old reference to IPython. Do this after the activate step.

$ hash -r

$ conda install -c conda-forge cartopy proj4

All of the examples should be run from IPython as

%run -i NN-FILE.py

and should each be self-contained.