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This document discusses why Python is a popular programming language for data science. It notes that Python has a clean syntax, expansive library, and large user base. Additionally, major companies like Google use Python for various applications. The document also provides examples of what businesses use Python for, including building data pipelines, descriptive analytics, machine learning, and data science tasks like clustering and prediction. Finally, it outlines some common tools and processes used in working as a data analyst or scientist, such as cleaning, reshaping, and analyzing data in Python.
![Why Is Python So Popular?
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- 5. What is Python? • An all-purpose, general language that works on multiple platforms • High level and easy to learn. • More commonly used for machine learning and predictive modeling (particularly good for academics and data scientists) • Open source and free to learn and use more commonly by developers.
- 7. Why Is Python So Popular? • Java public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("hello world"); } } • Python print(‘hello world’) Minimal setup is another of Python’s perks.
- 8. Why Python is so Popular? • The language continued to rank highly on various lists of the world’s most popular programming languages. • Many programmers view Python as a language with a clean syntax and an expansive library. • Python’s massive user base has created something of a positive feedback loop • In Python’s case, it’s Google, which uses the programming language in a number of applications (a corporate sponsor).
- 11. What do businesses use python for? • Building “data pipelines”: •New data is coming in all the time •Needs to be extracted, transformed and loaded •Needs to be fast • Descriptive Analytics • These skills are in demand. • Businesses want to know about their historical data. • They also want to know what is happening right now. • New marketing opportunities? Save time and money in current processes? • Machine learning and data science? • Can our customers be divided into clusters? • Can we predict what a customer is likely to buy and make recommendations? • Can we detect fraud? Can we predict risk?
- 12. Working as an analyst/scientist • You may be familiar with some tools already, depending where you’ve come from: • Excel and Office tools • SPSS, MATLAB • SQL • BI and analytics are a bit of a continuous process: • Cleaning data –missing values? Bad data? • Reshape data –is the data in the right format? • Loading –how much is there? • Find patterns –do these patterns add value? • Presentation –can you tell a story?
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