Top 20 Python Libraries for

Data Science
Core Libraries & Statistics
NumPy (http://www.numpy.org/)
• It is intended for processing large multidimensional arrays and matrices, and
an extensive collection of high-level mathematical functions and implemented
methods makes it possible to perform various operations with these objects.
SciPy (https://scipy.org/scipylib/)
• It is based on NumPy and therefore extends its capabilities. SciPy main data
structure is again a multidimensional array, implemented by Numpy. The
package contains tools that help with solving linear algebra, probability
theory, integral calculus and many more tasks.
Pandas (https://pandas.pydata.org/)
• Pandas provides high-level data structures and a vast variety of tools for analysis. The
great feature of this package is the ability to translate rather complex operations with
data into one or two commands. Pandas contains many built-in methods for grouping,
filtering, and combining data, as well as the time-series functionality.
Visualization
Matplotlib (https://matplotlib.org/index.html)
• Matplotlib is a low-level library for creating two-dimensional diagrams and graphs. With
its help, you can build diverse charts, from histograms and scatterplots to non-Cartesian
coordinates graphs. Moreover, many popular plotting libraries are designed to work in
conjunction with matplotlib.
Seaborn (https://seaborn.pydata.org/)
• Seaborn is essentially a higher-level API based on the matplotlib library. It contains more
suitable default settings for processing charts. Also, there is a rich gallery of visualizations
including some complex types like time series, jointplots, and violin diagrams.
Plotly (https://plot.ly/python/)
• Plotly is a popular library that allows you to build sophisticated graphics easily. The
package is adapted to work in interactive web applications. Among its remarkable
visualizations are contour graphics, ternary plots, and 3D charts.
Bokeh (https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/)
• The Bokeh library creates interactive and scalable visualizations in a browser using
JavaScript widgets. The library provides a versatile collection of graphs, styling
possibilities, interaction abilities in the form of linking plots, adding widgets, and defining
callbacks, and many more useful features.
Data Mining & Machine Learning
Scikit-learn (https://scikit-learn.org/stable/)
• This Python module based on NumPy and SciPy is one of the best libraries for
working with data. It provides algorithms for many standard machine learning and
data mining tasks such as clustering, regression, classification, dimensionality
reduction, and model selection.
PyFim (http://www.borgelt.net/pyfim.html)
• PyFIM is an extension module that makes several frequent item set mining
implementations available as functions. Currently apriori, eclat, fpgrowth, sam, relim,
carpenter, ista, accretion and apriacc are available as functions, although the
interfaces do not offer all of the options of the command line program.
Eli5 (https://eli5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
• Often the results of machine learning models predictions are not entirely clear, and
this is the challenge that eli5 library helps to deal with. It is a package for visualization
and debugging machine learning models and tracking the work of an algorithm step
by step. It provides support for scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, lightning, and
sklearn-crfsuite libraries and performs the different tasks for each of them.
Deep Learning
TensorFlow (https://www.tensorflow.org/)
• TensorFlow is a popular framework for deep and machine learning, developed in Google Brain.
It provides abilities to work with artificial neural networks with multiple data sets. Among the
most popular TensorFlow applications are object identification, speech recognition, and more.
PyTorch (https://pytorch.org/)
• PyTorch is a large framework that allows you to perform tensor computations with GPU acceleration, create
dynamic computational graphs and automatically calculate gradients. Above this, PyTorch offers a rich API
for solving applications related to neural networks.

Keras (https://keras.io/)
• Keras is a high-level library for working with neural networks, running on top of TensorFlow,
Theano, and now as a result of the new releases. It simplifies many specific tasks and greatly
reduces the amount of monotonous code. However, it may not be suitable for some
complicated things.
Dist-keras (https://joerihermans.com/work/distributed-keras/)
• dist-keras and others are gaining popularity and developing rapidly, and it is very difficult to single out
one of the libraries since they are all designed to solve a common task. These packages allow you to
train neural networks based on the Keras library directly with the help of Apache Spark.
Natural Language Processing & Data Scraping
NLTK (https://www.nltk.org/)
• NLTK is a set of libraries, a whole platform for natural language processing.
With the help of NLTK, you can process and analyze text in a variety of ways,
tokenize and tag it, extract information, etc. NLTK is also used for
prototyping and building research systems.
Gensim (https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/)
• Gensim is a Python library for robust semantic analysis, topic modeling and
vector-space modeling, and is built upon Numpy and Scipy. It provides an
implementation of popular NLP algorithms, such as word2vec. Although
gensim has its own models.wrappers.fasttext implementation, the fasttext
library can also be used for efficient learning of word representations.
Scrapy (https://scrapy.org/)
• Scrapy is a library used to create spiders bots that scan website pages and
collect structured data. In addition, Scrapy can extract data from the API. The
library happens to be very handy due to its extensibility and portability.
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