Principles of Data Science - Second Edition

Why Python?

We will use Python for a variety of reasons, listed as follows:

• Python is an extremely simple language to read and write, even if you've never coded before, which will make future examples easy to understand and read later on, even after you have read this book.
• It is one of the most common languages, both in production and in the academic setting (one of the fastest growing, as a matter of fact).
• The language's online community is vast and friendly. This means that a quick search for the solution to a problem should yield many people who have faced and solved similar (if not exactly the same) situations
• Python has prebuilt data science modules that both the novice and the veteran data scientist can utilize.

The last point is probably the ...