Python Data Visualization Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: Why Python?
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We've talked about why you might want to visualize data, but why use python to do it?
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Well, first python is one of the most popular programming languages in the world and is growing in popularity over time.
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I find also that Python is easy to learn. So if you're new to this space, the hurdles to get started are a lot lower.
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Python also works on all major operating systems so that you can run on your Linux your Mac or your Windows system.
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Python also supports many automation data analysis and visualization tasks. So this means that it will be a tool that you can use and grow with
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over time. And finally, one of the benefits of python is that there is
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a great collection of libraries that are available to do different visualization tests.
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And here's a sample of the ones that we're going to cover in this course.