July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
462 pages
9h 14m
English
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Installing the Data Science Toolbox
The Data Science Toolbox (DST) is a virtual environment based on Ubuntu for data analysis using Python and R. Since DST is a virtual environment, we can install it on various operating systems. We will install DST locally, which requires VirtualBox and Vagrant. VirtualBox is a virtual machine application originally created by Innotek GmbH in 2007. Vagrant is a wrapper around virtual machine applications such as VirtualBox created by Mitchell Hashimoto.
Getting ready
You need to have in the order of 2 to 3 GB free for VirtualBox, Vagrant, and DST itself. This may vary by operating system.
How to do it...
Installing DST requires the following steps:
- Install VirtualBox by downloading an installer for your operating ...