What You Need for This Book

This book will require the following minimum hardware requirements:

• Processor: Intel i5 (or equivalent)
• Memory: 8GB RAM
• Hard disk: 10 GB
• An internet connection

Throughout this book, we will be using Python and Jupyter Notebook to run our code. Additionally, Anaconda environment is needed to run Python and Jupyter notebook. Please ensure you have the following installed on your machine:

• Python 3.5+
• Anaconda 4.3+

Python libraries included with Anaconda installation:

• matplotlib 2.1.0+
• ipython 6.1.0+
• requests 2.18.4+
• beautifulsoup4 4.6.0+
• numpy 1.13.1+
• pandas 0.20.3+
• scikit-learn 0.19.0+
• seaborn 0.8.0+
• bokeh 0.12.10+

Python libraries that require manual installation:

• mlxtend
• version_information
• ipython-sql
• pdir2
• graphviz

Installation and Setup

Before you start with this book, we'll install Anaconda environment which consists of Python and Jupyter Notebook.

Installing Anaconda

1. Visit https://www.anaconda.com/download/ in your browser.
2. Click on Windows, Mac, or Linux, depending on the OS you are working on.
3. Next, click on the Download option. Make sure you download the latest version (3.6).
4. Open the installer afer download.
5. Follow the steps in the installer and that's it! Your Anaconda distribution is ready.ix

Updating Jupyter and Installing Dependencies

1. Search for Anaconda Prompt and open it.
2. Type the following commands to update conda and Jupyter:

   #Update conda
   conda update conda
   #Update Jupyter
   conda update jupyter
   #install packages
   conda install numpy
   conda install pandas
   conda install statsmodels
   conda install matplotlib
   conda install seaborn

3. To open Jupyter Notebook from Anaconda Prompt, use the following command:

   jupyter notebook