Getting started with Wakari
Wakari is a cloud service for collaborative Python data analysis environments, created by Continuum Analytics. Wakari provides a powerful set of pre-configured Python environments built on top of Anaconda, which is a free Python distribution for large-scale data processing and scientific computing. Wakari uses a Jupyter GUI, which is a Python shell improved to write, debug, and test Python code for scientific computing.
Jupyter is an open source, interactive data science tool with support for 40 programming languages. Jupyter provides a terminal-based interface and a Wolfram-Matematica such as HTML notebook. In Wakari, we can use either the terminal console or Jupyter notebook.
Wakari helps us to set up a complete scientific Python environment without any local installation. This can be very convenient for learning purposes, because we may start coding right away, and the Anaconda distribution includes several of the most used libraries, such as NumPy
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