There is a mystery to data science, but with just a little knowledge and a little Python, we can penetrate the veil and do some data science.

Python and the myriad tools and libraries available can make data science much more accessible. One thing to remember is that most scientists (including data scientists) are not necessarily experts in computer science. They like to use tools to simplify the coding and to allow them to focus on getting the answers and performing the analysis of the data they want.