IPython is a cool shell to run Python from and Pandas is a Python library for holding tabular data similar to R’s data frame. To install the software run: sudo apt-get install libzmq-dev python-dev g++ libfreetype6-dev libpng12-dev libblas-dev liblapack-dev gfortran cython libhdf5-serial-dev sudo pip install ipython sudo pip install tornado sudo pip install pyzmq sudo Read More