What you need for this book

First, you need a Python 3 distribution. I recommend the full Anaconda distribution as it comes with the majority of the software we need. I tested the code with Python 3.4 and the following packages:

  • joblib 0.8.4
  • IPython 3.2.1
  • NetworkX 1.9.1
  • NLTK 3.0.2
  • Numexpr 2.3.1
  • pandas 0.16.2
  • SciPy 0.16.0
  • seaborn 0.6.0
  • sqlalchemy 0.9.9
  • statsmodels 0.6.1
  • matplotlib 1.5.0
  • NumPy 1.10.1
  • scikit-learn 0.17
  • dautil 0.0.1a29

For some recipes, you need to install extra software, but this is explained whenever the software is required.

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