Dear Kishorekumar,
I'm a Python aficionado but I had spent a lot of time with different languages before settling in on Python (Java, C, JS, Ruby, R...). I can wholeheartedly recommend it for (what I guess) is your use case and in general as a first programming language to learn. Why?
1. Python is super easy to learn in comparison to other programming languages. It has an easy syntax and you don’t have to worry about a lot of technical things such as memory management, strict typing, garbage collection etc.
2. There are wonderful free resources, as others mentioned. I can recommend A Byte of Python as a starting point
https://python.swaroopch.com.
3. Python Standard Library offers great solutions for common problems (such as file handling, http, json interfaces etc)
4. Python docs is something that you can actually read and understand. Same thing with error messages. These can be cryptic in other languages (like R!:)
5. There is the Jupyter ecosystem for interactive programming in Python. I know, I know, it supports other languages as well but Python Jupyter Kernels are really great (in comparison to R kernels for example). Also, Google Colab provides a free, interactive Python environment without the need to setup anything.
6. Most ML is done in Python and TensorFlow and PyTorch are industry standards.
8. Python is fun! Try `import this` to see what I mean.
That said, Python can be kind of slow in some cases (though you can overcome this easily if you know what you’re doing). If you really need the speed, Julia promises to be as efficient and as fast as C. To be honest though, in 3+ years of working in Python the whole “Python is slow” thing didn’t really bother me. I would say it’s faster than R, at least in my use cases.
Also, if you need proper statistics, R might be a better choice. Statsmodels is the standard package for statistics in Python and you can do a lot with it. Unfortunately it can be a bit challenging and the docs are not so great. My current favourite for statistics in Python is Pingouin (
https://pingouin-stats.org), though it is missing some stuff (no mixed models yet).
Best of luck,
Chris
Dear all,
I am Kishorekumar Bharshetty, Audiologist from India. I am currently working as an Clinical Audiologist at Amplifon India Pvt Ltd.
I am curious to learn about Python software which is a language coding software, thinking that it will help me to set a base to learn more about Machine Learning technology.
I wanted to know, whether learning Python software for an audiologist is a good idea? If yes, how can I be benefitted with this in future?
Kindly, help me with this query.
Thanks, and Regards
Kishorekumar Bharshetty
Audiologist
Amplifon India Pvt Ltd, India
+91-9663148361