Python: Real World Machine Learning

Python packages

The packages that we are going to introduce in the present paragraph will be frequently used in the book. If you are not using a scientific distribution, we offer you a walkthrough on what versions you should decide on and how to install them quickly and successfully.

NumPy

NumPy, which is Travis Oliphant's creation, is at the core of every analytical solution in the Python language. It provides the user with multidimensional arrays along with a large set of functions to operate multiple mathematical operations on these arrays. Arrays are blocks of data arranged along multiple dimensions, which implement mathematical vectors and matrices. Arrays are useful not just to store data, but also for fast matrix operations (vectorization), ...