What you need for this book
To complete the projects in this book, you will need a version of Python 3.5 or higher. I recommend using Anaconda Python, but any Python distribution will do as long as it is updated and contains the following packages: Numpy, Matplotlib, NetworkX, PyMySQL, Gensim, and NLTK. In Chapter 1, Expanding Your Data Mining Toolbox, we will walk through an easy installation of Python and all these libraries, and each time a library is used later in the book, we will install it or upgrade it together.
Because data mining is obviously data-centric, and because the data sets we are working with are sometimes large or require some type of persistent data storage, I chose to implement some of the data mining algorithms alongside ...
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