Learning Data Mining with Python - Second Edition

What you need for this book

It should come as no surprise that you’ll need a computer, or access to one, to complete the book. The computer should be reasonably modern, but it doesn’t need to be overpowered. Any modern processor (from about 2010 onwards) and 4 gigabytes of RAM will suffice, and you can probably run almost all of the code on a slower system too.

The exception here is with the final two chapters. In these chapters, I step through using Amazon’s web services (AWS) for running the code. This will probably cost you some money, but the advantage is less system setup than running the code locally. If you don’t want to pay for those services, the tools used can all be set-up on a local computer, but you will definitely need a modern ...