There are a lot of buzzwords like "data science" floating around on the Internet these days. Some of you may have been swayed by the "sexiest job of the 21st century" label and decided to pursue a career in data science.

Data science is an evolutionary extension of statistics capable of coping with the huge volumes of data created on a regular basis today. NumPy (Numerical Python) is a Python linear algebra package. It expands the range of statistics by using methods from...