In our first post we learned about Python virtual environments and how to use conda to create and manage them. In our second post, we learned how to install packages that were not directly accessible from the command conda install. Specifically, we learned about conda channels hosted at https://anaconda.org as well as pip, both of which can be used to

I have been coding with Python for several years and I only recently took the time to learn about Python environments. Now that I understand them, I can see why they are so useful, especially in this day and age of large team collaborations, research reproducibility, and sharing data and code when research results are published. The purpose of this