{"id":543,"date":"2017-09-01T09:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=543"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:58:04","slug":"how-did-python-become-a-data-science-powerhouse-coding-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"How Did Python Become A Data Science Powerhouse? &#8211; Coding Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I teach <a href=\"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?cat=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SQL<\/a>, I recommend studying <a title=\"Python\" href=\"https:\/\/www.python.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Python<\/a> if you are interested in <a title=\"What is data analytics (DA)? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com\/definition\/data-analytics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data analytics<\/a> rather than using <a title=\"MATLAB - MathWorks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/matlab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MATLAB<\/a> or <a title=\"R: The R Project for Statistical Computing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9by46AAqz70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although <a title=\"Python\" href=\"https:\/\/www.python.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Python<\/a> is not a <a title=\"What is data science? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchcio.techtarget.com\/definition\/data-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data science<\/a> language, there are several <a title=\"What is library? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchsqlserver.techtarget.com\/definition\/library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">libraries<\/a> designed to analyze data in <a title=\"Python\" href=\"https:\/\/www.python.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Python<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/conda.io\/docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conda<\/a> &#8211; package manager<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"IPython\" href=\"http:\/\/ipython.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IPython<\/a> &#8211; <a title=\"What is shell? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchdatacenter.techtarget.com\/definition\/shell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shell<\/a> for interactive computing<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Jupyter Project\" href=\"https:\/\/jupyter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jupyter<\/a> &#8211; facility to write documentation<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"NumPy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.numpy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NumPy<\/a> &#8211; alternative to <a title=\"MATLAB - MathWorks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/matlab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MATLAB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"pandas: Python Data Analysis Library\" href=\"http:\/\/pandas.pydata.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pandas<\/a> &#8211; graphical <a title=\"What is data analytics (DA)? - Definition from WhatIs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com\/definition\/data-analytics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data analytics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"SciPy.org\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scipy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SciPy<\/a> &#8211; scientific &amp; technical computing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I teach SQL, I recommend studying Python if you are interested in data analytics rather than using MATLAB or R. Although Python is not a data science language, there are several libraries designed to analyze data in Python. Conda &#8211; package manager IPython &#8211; shell for interactive computing Jupyter &#8211; facility to write documentation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"send_to_group_blog":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-programming","category-cuny","category-open-source","category-sql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folvera.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}