What you need for this book
This book is written for Python version >= 3.5, and it is recommended that you use the most recent version of Python 3 that is currently available, although most of the code examples may also run for older versions of Python, including Python 2.7 with minor adjustments.
Maybe the easiest way to install Python and Python libraries is using Anaconda, a scientific computing distribution. You can read more about Anaconda and download it from https://www.continuum.io/downloads. Once Anaconda is in our system, we can install new Python packages with this command: conda install NamePackage.
We will use the following python packages:
Ipython 5.0
NumPy 1.11.1
SciPy 0.18.1
Pandas 0.18.1
Matplotlib 1.5.3
Seaborn 0.7.1
PyMC3 3.0