Quick tip: MacOS Homebrew Cheatsheet

Homebrew is a open-source package manager for Apple MacOS not to different from the well known linux package manager like dpkg, rpm or the FreeBSD pkg.

Some commands which I need regularly even though not often are composed in the following list.

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Install miniconda on MacOS

One of the most used tools in data science field (alongside R) is Python with his enormous amount of libraries like NumPy, pandas or SciPy.

Alongside these there is also the web frontend Jupyter that makes it easy to create interactive Python notebooks which are locally served on your system. If this is not your cup of tea there are several existing hosted solution like Google Colaboratory

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Run Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox on MacOS

If you’re a MacOS user then sometimes you need to run Windows for some particular reasons like special website tests (in the native Edge web browser). An easy & free way to do this is by using VirtualBox to run Windows 10 on your MacOS computer.

You can achieve this using the free virtualization software VirtualBox and the time limited (90 days) evaluation version of Windows 10 (Enterprise).

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