About 8,300 articles related to Python have been posted on Data Science Central, according to Google. Below is a small sample -- the 12 most useful and popular articles to get started with Python and data science.  The Guide to Learning Python for Data Science has been moved here. To receive updates about Python and any other data science topics, sign-up with DSC 

Our selection of Python articles

• Practical Data Science in Python: Guidebook 
• An indispensable Python : Data sourcing to Data science 
• R + Python 
• Python Data Tools - Book
• 7 Python Tools All Data Scientists Should Know How to Use 
• Java versus Python - Read the numerous comments
• Is Python or Perl faster than R? 
• Data Science Wars: R versus Python 
• Programming for Data Science the Polyglot approach: Python + R + SQL 
• 10 Python Machine Learning Projects on GitHub 
• 9 Python Analytics Libraries 
• Guide to getting started with Data Science and Python - Github

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