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Tools for data mining

Tools for data mining

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Tools for data mining

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- If you're going to go out mining then you need the right tools. When you're mining for data gold, that means software. And the two most common tools for that are Python and R. Now as it happens, we have two versions of this course, with one showing how to mine data in Python and the other one in R. There are good reasons for choosing these two languages. Python is currently the most popular language for data science and machine learning. It has an advantage of being a general purpose language, which means millions of people know how to use it because it can program basically anything. It's also well adapted for data. Python also is really easy to learn, it's got a clean readable syntax. R is a different kind of language. It's a programming language that's specifically developed for data analysis. Consequently, it's very popular with scientists and researchers. So it's what I learned first as a way of working with data.…

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