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SciPy Recipes

By : V Kishore Ayyadevara, Ruben Oliva Ramos
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SciPy Recipes

By: V Kishore Ayyadevara, Ruben Oliva Ramos

Overview of this book

With the SciPy Stack, you get the power to effectively process, manipulate, and visualize your data using the popular Python language. Utilizing SciPy correctly can sometimes be a very tricky proposition. This book provides the right techniques so you can use SciPy to perform different data science tasks with ease. This book includes hands-on recipes for using the different components of the SciPy Stack such as NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, and pandas, among others. You will use these libraries to solve real-world problems in linear algebra, numerical analysis, data visualization, and much more. The recipes included in the book will ensure you get a practical understanding not only of how a particular feature in SciPy Stack works, but also of its application to real-world problems. The independent nature of the recipes also ensure that you can pick up any one and learn about a particular feature of SciPy without reading through the other recipes, thus making the book a very handy and useful guide.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Installing Anaconda on Linux

In this recipe, we will show you how to install Anaconda on a Linux system.

How to do it...

  1. Open a Terminal window on the folder containing the installer and run the following command, replacing the version number, x.x.x, with the corresponding value for file you downloaded:
bash Anaconda3-x.x.x-Linux-x86_64.sh
  1. Review the license agreement and accept it. Enter yes when prompted to continue the installation
  2. When asked if you want to prepend the Anaconda3 installation location to your path, answer yes
  3. Wait until the installer stops
  4. Anaconda will be installed in the anaconda3 subfolder of your home folder.
  5. Optionally, proceed to the Checking the Installation recipe