Programming in Python

Programming can dramatically improve our ability to collect and analyze informationabout the world, which in turn can lead to discoveries through the kind of carefulreasoning demonstrated in the previous section. In data science, the purpose ofwriting a program is to instruct a computer to carry out the steps of an analysis.Computers cannot study the world on their own. People must describe precisely whatsteps the computer should take in order to collect and analyze data, and those stepsare expressed through programs.

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