Learning Data Mining with Python - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced data mining using Python. If you could run the code in this section (note that the full code is available in the supplied code package), then your computer is set up for much of the rest of the book. Other Python libraries will be introduced in later chapters to perform more specialized tasks.

We used the Jupyter Notebook to run our code, which allows us to immediately view the results of a small section of the code. Jupyter Notebook is a useful tool that will be used throughout the book.

We introduced a simple affinity analysis, finding products that are purchased together. This type of exploratory analysis gives an insight into a business process, an environment, or a scenario. The information from ...