• We strongly recommend installing Anaconda, as that includes Python along with all Python packages we need.
  
• If you install anaconda, you will have to add gensim. Here is a tutorial on how to add a package to Anaconda: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/navigator/tutorials/manage-packages/#installing-a-package
  Please do this, and choose to add gensim.
• lternatively, you can individually install:
• Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/ Any version >= 3.4 should be fine.
• Jupyter notebooks: https://jupyter.org/
• pandas: https://pandas.pydata.org/
• numpy: https://numpy.org/
• matplotlib: https://matplotlib.org/
• Statsmodels: https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/index.html
  
• NLTK: Installing NLTK itself: http://www.nltk.org/install.html You also need the NLTK data, see http://www.nltk.org/data.html
• gensim

Learning Python:

• How To Think Like A Computer Scientist is a very good and accessible online Python textbook.
  (Caution: It uses Python 2 rather than Python 3. One main difference you will note is that they omit the () around the print() command.)
  
• A Python tutorial

Fun with statistics

• Language Log: a language and linguistics blog written by Mark Liberman and others
  
• Bad science: Ben Goldacre's blog with lots of illustrations of what not to do in statistics
• xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
• And then there's the RXKCD package.