About This Book
The main purpose of Python for Data Science For Dummies, 2nd Edition is to take the scare factor out of data science by showing you that data science is not only really interesting but also quite doable using Python. You might assume that you need to be a computer science genius to perform the complex tasks normally associated with data science, but that’s far from the truth. Python comes with a host of useful libraries that do all the heavy lifting for you in the background. You don’t even realize how much is going on, and you don’t need to care. All you really need to know is that you want to perform specific tasks, and Python makes these tasks quite accessible.
Part of the emphasis of this book is on using the right tools. You start with Anaconda, a product that includes IPython and Jupyter Notebook — two tools that take the sting out of working with Python. You experiment with IPython in a fully interactive environment. The code you place...