Overview of Python and Installing Jupyter Notebook

Now that you have a better understanding of concepts behind data literacy and the evolution of data analysis, let's set up our own environment to allow you to work with data. In this chapter, we are going to provide an introduction to the Python programming language along with a popular tool called Jupyter Notebook that's used to run commands for data analysis. We will walk through the installation process step by step and discuss key concepts to understand why they are required for data analysis. By the end of this chapter, you will have a workstation available to run a hello world program that will help in building your confidence to move forward into deeper concepts.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Installing Python and using Jupyter Notebook
• Storing and retrieving data files
• Hello World! – running your first Python code
• Exploring Python packages