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Machine Learning: Setup

Software Packages Required

You will need to have an installation of Python 3 with the matplotlib, pandas, numpy and optionally opencv packages.

The Anaconda Distribution includes all of these except opencv by default.

Installing OpenCV with Anaconda

Installing from the Anaconda command line

From the Anaconda terminal run the command conda install -c conda-forge opencv

Download the data

Please create a sub directory called data in the directory where you save any code you write.

Download the the following files to this directory:

If you are using a Mac or Linux system the following commands will download this:

mkdir data
cd data
wget https://scw-aberystwyth.github.io/machine-learning-novice/data/worldbank-gdp.csv
wget https://scw-aberystwyth.github.io/machine-learning-novice/data/worldbank-gdp-outliers.csv
wget https://scw-aberystwyth.github.io/machine-learning-novice/data/gapminder-life-expectancy.csv