Installing packages

During the course of this book, we will use various packages such as NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, and matplotlib. Make sure you install these packages before you proceed.

If you use Ubuntu or Mac OS X, installing these packages is pretty straightforward. All these packages can be installed using a one-line command on the terminal. Here are the relevant links for installation:

• NumPy: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.10.1/user/install.html
• SciPy: http://www.scipy.org/install.html
• scikit-learn: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html
• matplotlib: http://matplotlib.org/1.4.2/users/installing.html

If you are on Windows, you should have installed a SciPy-stack compatible version of Python 3.