Unlike R, Python was not built from the ground up with data science in mind, but there are plenty of third party libraries to make up for this. A much more exhaustive list of packages can be found later in this document, but these four packages are a good set of choices to start your data science journey with: [Scikit-Learn](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html) is a general-purpose data science package which implements the most popular algorithms - it also includes rich documentation, tutorials, and examples of the models it implements. Even if you prefer to write your own implementations, Scikit-Learn is a valuable reference to the nuts-and-bolts behind many of the common algorithms you'll find. With [Pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/), one can collect and analyze their data into a convenient table format. [Numpy](https://numpy.org/) provides very fast tooling for mathematical operations, with a focus on vectors and matrices. [Seaborn](https://seaborn.pydata.org/), itself based on the [Matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/) package, is a quick way to generate beautiful visualizations of your data, with many good defaults available out of the box, as well as a gallery showing how to produce many common visualizations of your data.
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