Advanced Python Programming for Data Science
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Advanced Python Programming for Data Science
Software Environment
The courses are implemented as Jupyter/IPython notebooks. We provide a VM with preconfigured Jupyter Notebook Server for each student.
You can also setup the software environment on your own computer.
Minimum Requirement
- Current web browser, such as Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
Running the Course on your own Computer
We have only tested the course on Linux and OSX! Installation on Windows may differ!
- Python3 (>= 3.4) - A sufficiently recent release of Python
- Commonly available via package managers such as
apt-get install python3
orbrew install python3
. - Also available from the Python Homepage
- Commonly available via package managers such as
- Python3 pip - Python Package Manager
- Several package managers do not install the python package manger
- It will be available as a separate package in this case, e.g.
apt-get install python3-pip
.
- Jupyter - Evaluates and renders the notebooks
- Available via pip:
pip3 install jupyter
- Available via pip:
- RISE (optional) - provides the interactive presentation view
- Consult the RISE Readme
- Available via pip:
pip3 install RISE && jupyter-nbextension install rise --py --sys-prefix && jupyter-nbextension enable rise --py --sys-prefix