Appendix A. Preparing the environment
A.1 Installing Python and Anaconda
For the projects in this book, we will use Anaconda, a Python distribution that comes with most of the required machine learning packages that you’ll need to use: NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-learn, Pandas, and many more.
A.1.1 Installing Python and Anaconda on Linux
The instructions in this section will work regardless of whether you’re installing Anaconda on a remote machine or your laptop. Although we tested it only on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS, this process should work fine for most Linux distributions.
Note Using Ubuntu Linux is recommended for the examples in this book. It’s not a strict requirement, however, and you should not have problems running the examples in other ...
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