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Anaconda overview

Anaconda overview - Python Tutorial

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Anaconda overview

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Let's start by talking about Anaconda. Anaconda is the most popular package and environment manager for data scientists. So what does that mean exactly? The main thing to note here is that Anaconda is used by data scientists. So if you're getting started in data science, this is the first thing you should install. Here are some of the things that it comes with. First, coding languages and tools. The two coding languages that you see here are Python and R, which are on the left, and the corresponding tools are listed to the right. Jupyter Notebook and RStudio are tools you would use to code in those languages. For this course, we're specifically going to be using those top two. We'll be using Jupyter Notebook to write Python code. In addition, Anaconda comes with a lot of popular packages. And what these packages allow us to do is extend Python's capabilities beyond just base Python code. So with NumPy, we're able to do additional math calculations. With pandas, we're able to create…

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