Is It Possible To Do Data Science On An iPad Pro In 2022? — Which Apps Should I Use?

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For a couple of weeks, I’ve purchased a brand new iPad Pro 11 Inch. It’s perfect, and I absolutely love it. My productivity is growing, and I love to work on it. But I’m a programmer, is such a device capable of doing these heavy tasks? Let’s find out. In this article, I will show the best iPad apps for Data Science and Programming.

Is It Possible?

The iPad Pro is a wonderful machine and a productivity monster but is it possible to write code on it? Or even do Data Science or Machine Learning? And the answer depends because the iPad is certainly capable of executing these programs and calculations. Still, you need to ask yourself if you want to be programming on an iPad, the screen is smaller, and then you need to have an external keyboard which can be quite expensive.

But in case you do want to write code on an iPad which apps should you use? I’ll go through a couple that I would be using.

1 — Pythonista

Pythonista is the first app that I’d recommend if you want to get started with programming and data science on an iPad. Python is the most used language for data analysis and machine learning, so that the…