To get the most out of this book
To get the most out of this book, you will need access to the DataRobot software. The commercial version has all the functionality. If you do not have access to a commercial version, you can get an evaluation version that works for a limited time and does not have all the capabilities discussed. For some of the advanced capabilities and the API to work, you will need to know some Python and have access to an open source Python environment (for instance, Anaconda or Jupyter Notebooks).
Even though most of what we describe in this book can be done without knowing Python, we highly encourage you to learn Python as a next step. Knowing programming languages such as Python will open up a lot more possibilities for you and enable you to take better advantage of tools such as DataRobot.