Installing Python

There are multiple Python distributions, starting with the original, vanilla Python, which is accessible at https://www.python.org/. Data analysis, however, adds unique requirements for packaging (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjXJLVINsSA&feature=youtu.be&t=3555). In this book, we use Anaconda, which is an open source and free Python distribution, designed for data science and machine learning. Anaconda's main features include a smooth installation of data science packages (many of which run C and Fortran languages under the hood) and conda, which is a great package and environment manager (we will talk more about environments and conda later in Chapter 9, Shell, Git, Conda, and More – at Your Command). Conveniently, the Anaconda distribution installs all the packages (https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/packages/pkg-docs/) we need in this...