Created in the late 1980s, Python is a highly flexible and dynamic language that has found a large audience among system administrators and developers who need a language to quickly assemble programs. The PyData conference, however, will focus on using Python for more specialized analysis tasks, with different talks on using Python and related libraries to process data streams, to visualize datasets, and to carry out scientific calculations.
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