Installing Rodeo

IPython Notebook, an interactive, browser-based tool for developing in Python, has become the de facto standard for creating and sharing code. We'll be using it throughout this book. The Python library that we're about to install—Rodeo—is an alternative you can use. The difference between IPython Notebook and Rodeo is that Rodeo has a built-in functionality to view data in a Pandas data frame, a functionality that can come in handy when you want to view, real-time, the changes that you are making to your data. Having said that, IPython Notebook is the current standard.

Getting ready

To use this recipe, you need a working installation of Python.

How to do it…

Regardless of the operating system, you install Rodeo with the following command:

pip install rodeo

That's all there is to it!

How it works…

The pitch for Rodeo is that it's a data centric IDE for Python. I use it as an alternative to IPython Notebook when I want to be able to view the contents of my Pandas data frames while working with my data. If you've ever used a tool like R Studio, Rodeo will feel very familiar.