Why is python necessary for data science job?

Question

Is python the best programming language for data science?

Answer 1

Python is the most necessary skill for a data science job because of its packages like pandas, numpy, sklearn, matplotlib, etc. These packages of python makes data analysis and data visualizations easy. Python is an open-source language and has libraries like sklearn for machine learning and nltk, spaCy for Natural Language Processing. The deep learning frameworks like pytorch for computer vision and NLP are built on python. Also, Python is easy to learn and implement even if you do not have any coding experience.

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