Data Science with Python

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Python programming language
: Python is a high level programming language with many useful packages written for it

[Python packages (“modules”)]
- NumPy
: an optimized python library for numerical analysis, specifically: large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices. Found in Introduction to Data Science
http://www.numpy.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy

- pandas
: an optimized python library for data analysis including dataframes inspired by R. Found in Introduction to Data Science
http://pandas.pydata.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandas_(software)

- matplotlib
: a 2D plotting library for python, includes the pyplot interface which provides a MATLAB-like interface (see ipython notebooks and seaborn below). Found in Introduction to Data Science
http://matplotlib.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matplotlib

SciPy
: a library for scientific computing and technical computing. Found in Introduction to Data Science
http://www.scipy.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciPy

scikit-learn
: machine learning library built on NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib. Mentioned in Introduction to Machine Learning
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scikit-learn

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iPython
: an improved interactive shell for python with introspection, rich media, additional shell syntax, tab completion, and richer history
http://ipython.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPython

iPython notebooks
: a web-based interactive computational environment
http://ipython.org/notebook.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPython#Notebook
hosting: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/

anaconda
: a python package manager for science, math, engineering, data analysis with the intent of simplifying and maintaining compatibility between library versions. Also useful for getting started with ipython notebooks.
http://continuum.io/downloads

ggplot: and (in-progress) port of R’s ggplot2 which premised upon a grammar of graphics
http://ggplot.yhathq.com

seaborn: a Python visualization library based on matplotlib with a highlevel interface
http://web.stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/