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Day 3: Using Pip and Numpy



Q:Why is python so popular? 

Ans: Good community and wonderful packages for literally everything.

Q: What is pip?

Ans: To install and manage those wonderful packages in Python we use a system call pip.

If you have Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4 installed from python.org, you will already have pip and setuptools, but will need to upgrade to the latest version:
On Linux or macOS:
pip install -U pip setuptools
On Windows:
python -m pip install -U pip setuptools

Numpy 

The first package that we are going to install is Numpy. Consider it as a core requirement to learn data science.

Just write the in your terminal/shell
pip install numpy
 And thats it. You have successfully installed numpy package.

One of the best resource to get started with numpy is this Video by datacamp.
Enjoy

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