Let’s start by telling the truth: machines don’t learn. What a typical “learning machine” does, is f i nding a mathematical formula, which, when applied to a collection of inputs (called “training data”), produces the desired outputs....
There are plenty of substantive open source software projects out there for data scientists, so why choose Python? After all, there is R. R is a robust and well-supported language written initially by statistician for statisticians.
The view is...