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Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda

By : Yuxing Yan, James Yan
Book Image

Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda

By: Yuxing Yan, James Yan

Overview of this book

Anaconda is an open source platform that brings together the best tools for data science professionals with more than 100 popular packages supporting Python, Scala, and R languages. Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda gets you started with Anaconda and demonstrates how you can use it to perform data science operations in the real world. The book begins with setting up the environment for Anaconda platform in order to make it accessible for tools and frameworks such as Jupyter, pandas, matplotlib, Python, R, Julia, and more. You’ll walk through package manager Conda, through which you can automatically manage all packages including cross-language dependencies, and work across Linux, macOS, and Windows. You’ll explore all the essentials of data science and linear algebra to perform data science tasks using packages such as SciPy, contrastive, scikit-learn, Rattle, and Rmixmod. Once you’re accustomed to all this, you’ll start with operations in data science such as cleaning, sorting, and data classification. You’ll move on to learning how to perform tasks such as clustering, regression, prediction, and building machine learning models and optimizing them. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to visualize data using the packages available for Julia, Python, and R.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Installing Anaconda

First, go to http://anaconda.org/. We can see Download Anaconda the top-right part of the page. Based on the individual operating system, users should download the appropriate package.

Depending on which version you prefer, you could download Python 3.6 or Python 2.7. Generally speaking, for new learners it is a good idea to download the latest version (Python 3.6 in this case). This applies for both Mac and Linux-based operating systems.

Anaconda for Windows

Refer to the following steps:

  1. For PC users, after clicking on Windows, you will be presented with different versions to download.

As of May 09, 2018, two versions of Python accompanying Anaconda, version 3.6 and version 2.7, are available If there...