Learn Enough Python to Be Dangerous: Software Development, Flask Web Apps, and Beginning Data Science with Python
by Michael Hartl
Chapter 11
Data Science
Data science is a rapidly developing field that combines tools from computation and statistics to create insights and draw conclusions from data. That description may sound a little vague, and indeed there is no universally accepted definition of the field; for example, some people think “data science” is just a fancy term for “statistics”, while others hold that statistics is the least important part of data science.
Luckily, there is broad agreement that Python is an excellent tool for data science, whatever it is exactly.1 There is also a general consensus about which specific Python tools are most useful for the subject. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce some of those tools and use them to investigate some ...
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