Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

Anaconda

Anaconda provides a way to set up a Python environment specifically for data science. It includes some of the packages we will use in this book, along with several others, which may be necessary for tasks that aren't covered in this book (and also deals with dependencies outside of Python that might be tricky to install otherwise). Anaconda uses conda as the environment and package manager instead of pip, although packages can still be installed with pip (as long as the pip installed by Anaconda is called). Be warned that this is a very large install (although the Miniconda version is much lighter).

People who use Python for purposes aside from data science may prefer the venv method we discussed earlier in order to have more control ...