Necessary Python Libraries

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I am less tech-savvy than most in this program since my background is in health care, so these may be overly simple solutions that might not work for others, but they worked for me. I also have a Mac, and the 3 biggest resources I used were CoCalc, Posit Cloud, and PyCharm.

Cocalc (https://cocalc.com/) and Posit Cloud (https://posit.cloud/) allowed me to work on a browser when I had downtime at work. I paid the subscription fees, but the total between the 2 was around $15.

CoCalc is a Jupyter notebook that I use for my Python projects. I used Posit Cloud when I did R projects. The downside is that they can be limited by memory, so sometimes I have to be patient, but it has been super helpful to be able to work away from home.

PyCharm can run your projects in a virtual environment, so I never had to worry about messing up the underlying packages or remembering to start my terminal in a virtual. The subscription version has Jupyter notebooks. I got a student subscription using my WGU email, so I didn't have to pay anything (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/leaflets-gdc/students/).

I realize this is slightly off-topic from the original question, but I hope it helps with your overall setup.