First, let's proceed and introduce all the settings you need in order to create a fully working data science environment to test the examples and experiment with the code that we are going to provide you with.
Python is an open source, object-oriented, and cross-platform programming language. Compared to some of its direct competitors (for instance, C++ or Java), Python is very concise. It allows you to build a working software prototype in a very short time, and yet it has become the most used language in the data scientist's toolbox not just because of that. It is also a general-purpose language, and it is very flexible due to a variety of available packages that solve a wide spectrum of problems and necessities.
