“Python is a very easy language to learn for non-programmers,” said Peter Wang, president of Continuum Analytics. That’s important because most big-data analysts will probably not be ...

It is a handy tool for keeping a record of data explorations, creating charts, styling text and sharing the results of that work. For data analysis, the cornerstone package in Python is “Pandas”.

“Python is a very easy language to learn for non-programmers,” said Peter Wang, president of Continuum Analytics. That’s important because most big-data analysts will probably not be ...