Installing Python
First of all, let's proceed to introduce all the settings you need in order to create a fully working data science environment to test the examples and experiment with the code that we are going to provide you with.
Python is an open source, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language that, compared to its direct competitors (for instance, C++ and Java), is very concise. It allows you to build a working software prototype in a very short time. Did it become the most used language in the data scientist's toolbox just because of this? Well, no. It's also a general-purpose language, and it is very flexible indeed due to a large variety of available packages that solve a wide spectrum of problems and necessities.
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