Python: Real World Machine Learning

Python for large scale machine learning

Given the availability of many useful packages for machine learning and the fact that it is a programming language quite popular among data scientists, Python is our language of choice for all the code presented in this book.

In this book, when necessary, we will provide further instructions in order to install any further necessary library or tool. Here, we will instead start installing the basics, that is, the Python language and the most frequently used packages for computations and machine learning.

Choosing between Python 2 and Python 3

Before starting, it is important to know that there are two main branches of Python: versions 2 and 3. As many core functionalities have changed, scripts built for one ...