Intro to Machine learning:python setup

Tried many versions/flavours of python but this is finally working:

while setting up python for machine learning.

I followed the below steps :-

Install python-2.7.13.msi

• set PATH=C:\Python27

• set PATH=C:\Python27\Scripts

Go to http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scipy

Downloaded:- • numpy-1.13.1+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl 

                       • scipy-0.18.0-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

Installing numpy: pip install numpy-1.13.1+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

Installing scipy: pip install scipy-0.18.0-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

You can test the correctness using below cmds:-

>>> import numpy
>>> import scipy
>>> import sklearn
>>> numpy.version.version
'1.13.1'
>>> scipy.version.version
'0.19.1'
>>>

Good things of doing this course:-

• Helped me in beliving that I can learn Machine Learning.
• Very interactive,you will not get bored
• Nice simple exercises,me being new to python running my code in python is very Joyful.
• Andrew's classes were very therotic and mathematical,one needs great concentration in understanding those concepts.