Data Science in Python. Volume 1: Get and Install Scientific Python3: WinPython, Anaconda

by Alexander Stepanov

Python is the most popular programming language in scientific computing today. This series is for people who want to start using Python 3 and its popular extension libraries quickly. I assume you are familiar with Python. This short introductory volume 1 is intended to get you started with scientific Python distribution necessary to run examples from other volumes. It covers how Obtain and install Winpython or Anaconda Python distribution. Start a Jupyter (formerly IPython) notebook Use IDLE and Spyder integrated development environmentsGives an overview of the topics covered in the following volumesVolume 2 of this series, that describes how to read tabular data, save it as text or Microsoft Excel file, explore data interactively with Ipython notebook, create GUI application with TkInter, package your program for deployment on other computers, do efficient computation with Numpy, run Python at the speed of compiled program on all cores of your processor. Volume 3 describes plotting library Matplotlib and using Python together with SQLite database.

18 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 24, 2016

Reviews

[Rajiv Agarwal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick summary of WinPython and Anaconda

This gives a quick summary of two popular scientific Python installations. This is not very useful by itself but only if you get all three volumes.