Tuesday 26 December 2017

Starting with Python - Anaconda

When initially starting out with Python I was primarily interesting in performing data analytics and machine learning. I personally feel that that best Python distribution for these is the Anaconda distribution. 

The advantage of using it is that it comes with a large number of really useful packages already installed, for example numpy, pandas and scikit learn are already there. Another advantage of installing Python this way is that you get access to several other tools. 


Jupyter Notebooks is a great way to share and develop code, personally I am still using the other IDE that comes with this which is Spyder. In time I may well move over as Jupyter seems to be the took to use, much like python is becoming really popular. 

For the purposes of the work on this blog you should also use the useful resource sections and install python-docx and XLwings. Check out the getting started section for more information on how to get started using python. 

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