Importing packages with Anaconda and conda-forge

This section might be one of the most valuable in the entire book as it's such a foundational part of the work you will do day to day as a data scientist (and as a developer). In any given project or even a small proof of concept, you will use many packages to accomplish what you need to, so let's look at how conda and conda-forge work together to get you what you need.

The conda package manager and Navigator are great tools, but they are useless without the packages themselves. For any given update to a package, there are things that might have changed with it or new dependencies brought in. For example, TensorFlow (https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow), the popular machine learning framework, is looking at releasing version 2.6.0. This release splits out a major part, Keras, so now there may be libraries that aren't needed and new ones that are. Some package updates are very minor, but some require a lot of manual...