Appendix AAnaconda and Jupyter Notebook Setup

In this appendix, you learn to install Anaconda Navigator on your computer, set up a Python environment that includes several common machine learning libraries, and configure Jupyter Notebook.

Installing the Anaconda Distribution

Anaconda is a Python distribution (pre-built and preconfigured collection of packages) that is commonly used for data science. The Anaconda distribution includes the conda package manager in addition to the preconfigured Python packages and other tools. The conda package manager can be used from the command line to set up Python environments and install additional packages that do not come installed by default with Anaconda.

Anaconda Navigator is a GUI tool that is ...

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