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 1. Create and activate your conda environment from the `environment.yml` file
    ```bash
    conda env create -f environment.yml
-   conda activate cookbook-example
+   conda activate cookbook-dev
    ```
 1. Move into the `notebooks` directory and start up Jupyterlab
    ```bash