A quick tour of Python's data science stack

In this section, I will introduce the main libraries in Python's data science stack. These will be our computational tools. Although proficiency in them is not a prerequisite for following the contents of this book, knowledge of them will certainly be useful. My goal is not to provide complete coverage of these tools, as there are many excellent resources and tutorials for that purpose; here, I just want to introduce some of the basic concepts about them and in the following chapters of the book we will see how to use these tools for doing predictive analytics. If you are already familiar with these tools you can, of course, skip this section.