diff --git a/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py b/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4baef2fae1646
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+c.NotebookApp.contents_manager_class = 'jupytext.TextFileContentsManager'  # noqa
+c.ContentsManager.preferred_jupytext_formats_read = 'py:sphinx'  # noqa
+c.ContentsManager.sphinx_convert_rst2md = True  # noqa
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index fa2ef793b9e26..15eb95dcde9df 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .. -*- mode: rst -*-
 
-|Travis|_ |AppVeyor|_ |Codecov|_ |CircleCI|_ |Python27|_ |Python35|_ |PyPi|_ |DOI|_
+|Travis|_ |AppVeyor|_ |Codecov|_ |CircleCI|_ |Python27|_ |Python35|_ |PyPi|_ |DOI|_ |Binder|_
 
 .. |Travis| image:: https://api.travis-ci.org/scikit-learn/scikit-learn.svg?branch=master
 .. _Travis: https://travis-ci.org/scikit-learn/scikit-learn
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
 .. |DOI| image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/21369/scikit-learn/scikit-learn.svg
 .. _DOI: https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/21369/scikit-learn/scikit-learn
 
+.. |Binder| image:: https://mybinder.org/badge.svg
+.. _Binder: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/master?filepath=examples
+
+
 scikit-learn
 ============
 
diff --git a/binder/requirements.txt b/binder/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..81595f132b3e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/binder/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+jupytext >= 0.7.1
+numpy >= 1.8.2
+scipy >= 0.13.3
+pandas
+matplotlib >= 1.1.1
+scikit-learn