Data Science Programming All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 3

Creating a Data Science Lab of Your Own

IN THIS CHAPTER

Determining which platform and language options to use

Obtaining and installing your language of choice

Working with frameworks and Anaconda

Getting the downloadable code

This book helps you gain an understanding of data science using two different languages: Python and R. Of course, not everyone will want to learn both languages, and you’re not required to do so. Still, you need to choose one of them and create a data science lab of your own so that you can follow along with the examples. Consequently, this chapter begins by examining various options you have for creating your lab — they’re extensive because data science has become so popular, and so many people with different skill sets need data science to perform tasks. After you choose the options you want, you usually need to perform some amount of setup to create your lab. This chapter also helps you toward that end.

As part of performing some data science tasks, you also use a framework. In most cases, your language will require that you import either libraries ...