From the course: Hands-On Data Science using SQL, Tableau, Python, and Spark
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Setting up Python and Jupyter
From the course: Hands-On Data Science using SQL, Tableau, Python, and Spark
Setting up Python and Jupyter
- Now let's get into one of the most popular and powerful languages in data, Python. I like to get started by heading over to anaconda.com/download and downloading the Anaconda Distribution of Python, which includes all the prerequisites and everything we need to get up and running. If you're on Windows, go ahead and choose the Windows option that's right for you. If you're on a Mac, choose the Mac option that's right for you based on the chip set of your computer, whether it's an Intel-based or one of the newer Apple silicon. With this, what you're going to do is basically just run the installer and then find the Jupyter Notebook, which is the app we're going to be using to run our code in, and open this up and it will open a browser for you where we can actually write our code. So this is going to be browser-based, so whether or not you're on a Mac or a PC, it shouldn't matter. Just the setup is just a little bit different, but other than that, once you get to this point where we…
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