Technical requirements

The following is a list of prerequisites for this chapter:

• Ensure that you have both Python 3.6+ and PyCharm installed on your computer.
• Download the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Application-Development-with-PyCharm.

First of all, we will be using the PyCharm project inside the Chapter13/Pipeline folder in our code repository during our discussions. Let's now start our discussion with the central element of any data science project—the data.