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Python for Data Science

Explore why Python is the leading language for data science, especially for beginners and non-programmers. Understand its advantages over Excel, including better handling of large data, automation possibilities, superior visualization options, error detection, and access to advanced statistics and machine learning tools. This lesson prepares you to use Python effectively in your data science journey.

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Python as a tool for Data Science

Python is one of the most popular languages. It is being regarded as the language of Data Science these days. It has overtaken other languages and tools such as R, SAS, Excel, and RapidMiner. So, what makes it so popular?

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  • General-purpose language: It is a general-purpose language and is lightweight and fast. Therefore, it can be used for many different purposes.

  • Support for Data Science: Python was not built for Data Science but its general-purpose nature and the support of the community in providing third-party tools like Numpy, Pandas, matplotlib, and Scipy has made it the most popular in ...