Python for Business: Setup

Software

We will use jupyter notebook to run python. If you have not installed jupyter notebooks, please follow the instructions to install. For both windows and Mac, the easiest way is to install ANACONDA (recomend download and install the python 3.6 version). ANACONDA will automatically install python, jupyter and few packages that are frequently used in data analytics to your computer. You can also choose to use python -m pip install jupyter command to install if you already have python in your computer.

After installing anaconda,

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Macs

Now you successfully have the notebook open!

Data

Download this data to your computer: tbd

About the data

The data for this lesson is a part of the Data Carpentry Business workshop. The original data for this lesson and the workshop are collected from the State of Iowa It is open for public use, we have modified the data for the workshop

The data sets are stored in comma-separated values (CSV) format. We will learn: