Installation of Python and pandas using Anaconda

After a standalone installation of Python, each library will have to be separately installed. It is a bit of a hassle to ensure version compatibility between newly installed libraries and the associated dependencies. This is where a third-party distribution like Anaconda comes in handy. Anaconda is the most widely used distribution for Python/R, designed for developing scalable data science solutions.

What is Anaconda?

Anaconda is an open source Python/R distribution, developed to seamlessly manage packages, dependencies and environments. It is compatible with Windows, Linux and macOS and requires 3 GB of disk space. It needs this memory to download and install quite a collection...