Research Guides: Software for Data Analysis: Python

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Why Python?

While R is mainly used for statistical analysis, Python provides a more general approach to data science. R and Python are state of the art in terms of programming language oriented towards data science. Learning both of them is, of course, the ideal solution.

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Online Tutorials

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