Graph Analysis Tutorial

Environment Setup

Creating Your Workbench Instance

Follow these steps to create your own notebook environment:

1. Go to Google Cloud Console
2. Navigate to Vertex AI → Workbench → Instances
3. Click Create New
4. Configure the instance:
   • Name: YOURNAME-graph
   • Region: us-east1
   • Zone: us-east1-b
   • Uncheck 'Enable Apache Spark and BigQuery Kernels'
5. Click Advanced options
6. Under Environment, select Use custom container
   • For 'Docker container image', choose 'select' and choose 'graph-tool' and select the one with 'latest' tag from the drop-down.
7. Under Machine type n2-standard-96
   • Choose n2-standard-96
   • 'Enable Idle Shutdown' = 30
8. Click Create
9. Wait 10-15 minutes for provisioning
10. Once status shows Running, click Open JupyterLab
11. Once in the jupyter lab. Click the github tab on the left (3rd tab) -> clone a repository -> paste this repo link there.
12. Now navigate inside /graph_analysis and we are all set!

Using the Environment

Select the "Python 3.10 (graph-tool)" kernel

Saving Your Work

• Save notebooks frequently
• Files are preserved when you stop the instance
• Variables in memory are lost when you stop — re-run cells after restarting

Managing Costs

• Stop your instance when not in use (you still pay for disk storage)
• Start to resume work
• Delete when you no longer need it