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Big Data Visualization

You're reading from   Big Data Visualization Bring scalability and dynamics to your Big Data visualization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785281945
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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About Python


Python became available sometime during the late 1980s and bargains to be a very easy to comprehend scripting language. It shines at tasks such as integration, has all sorts of ready-made tools, and can connect to databases and other systems.

Python is also very popular in web development, though primarily on the backend side, and since Python runs interactively or in live mode, it is difficult to pack up a Python solution into a single executable file for distribution.

Furthermore, Python is not a desktop application but it is a scripting language that is designed by emphasizing code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to (perhaps) solve problems in fewer lines of code (than in languages such as C++ or Java) and without all the overhead.

The reader should note that there are various free versions of downloadable Python IDEs such as Wingware (available at www.wingware.com) that make scripting with Python very manageable (and even enjoyable!):

The bottom line? Python...

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