PART III THE ANACONDA ECOSYSTEM
The Python scientific ecosystem is robust, which means it attempts to satisfy the same needs in multiple ways. As discussed in this book’s introduction, this can lead to a bewildering maze of packages and tools for users to negotiate. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the literally thousands of Python packages available to you through conda and conda-forge.
Fortunately, only a few packages are considered essential to scientific work. These libraries form the basic Python ecosystem for scientific research and are shown, with a few overlapping, ancillary, and competing libraries, in Figure III-1 (PyCharm and Spyder, for example, are similar programming tools available through Anaconda).
At the core of this ecosystem ...
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