Python: Data Analytics and Visualization

What you need for this learning path

You will need a Python programming environment installed on your system. The first module uses a recent Python 2, but many examples will work with Python 3 as well.b The versions of the libraries used in the first module are: NumPy 1.9.2, Pandas 0.16.2, matplotlib 1.4.3, tables 3.2.2, pymongo 3.0.3, redis 2.10.3, and scikit-learn 0.16.1. As these packages are all hosted on PyPI, the Python package index, they can be easily installed with pip. To install NumPy, you would write:

$ pip install numpy If you are not using them already, we suggest you take a look at virtual environments for managing isolating Python environment on your computer. For Python 2, there are two packages of interest there: virtualenv and ...