Using Python for machine learning
Python is one of the most popular programming languages for data science and therefore enjoys a large number of useful add-on libraries developed by its great community.
Although the performance of interpreted languages, such as Python, for computation-intensive tasks is inferior to lower-level programming languages, extension libraries such as NumPy and SciPy have been developed that build upon lower layer Fortran and C implementations for fast and vectorized operations on multidimensional arrays.
For machine learning programming tasks, we will mostly refer to the scikit-learn library, which is one of the most popular and accessible open source machine learning libraries as of today.
Installing Python packages
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