Technical requirements
This chapter will rely heavily on the pandas and NumPy libraries, but you don't require any prior knowledge of these. If you have installed Python from a scientific distribution, such as Anaconda or WinPython, these libraries are probably already installed. We will also be using the statsmodels
library for linear regression, and machine learning algorithms from sklearn
and missingpy
. If you need to install any of these packages, you can do so by running pip install [package name]
from a terminal window or Windows PowerShell.