Getting Started

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Data Science and Machine Learning are two exciting areas experiencing tremendous growth. Acta Machina is a collection of practical posts that cover both the fundamentals and interesting, new developments as they happen.

The only pre-requisite for this blog is a working knowledge of Python. If you want to learn Python, a great way to start is by using the interactive course at Codecademy.

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Easy Installation

Anaconda is the easiest way to install Python 3 and all the packages used by Acta Machina. Anaconda helps you manage Python environments and contains over 1,500+ open source packages that are useful for Data Science and Machine Learning. It is free and supports Linux, Mac and Windows.

Manual Installation

Linux

sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip

pip3 install virtualenv

virtualenv -p python3 venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip3 install -U numpy scipy matplotlib ipython jupyter pandas sympy nose scikit-learn

pip3 install -U torch torchvision

Mac

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

brew install python

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:$PATH"

pip3 install virtualenv

virtualenv -p python3 venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip3 install -U numpy scipy matplotlib ipython jupyter pandas sympy nose scikit-learn

pip3 install -U torch torchvision

Windows

choco install python

python3 -m pip install -U pip

virtualenv -p python3 venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip3 install -U numpy scipy matplotlib ipython jupyter pandas sympy nose scikit-learn

pip3 install https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu90/torch-1.0.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl

pip3 install torchvision