OK so you have decided to learn python, excel just isn’t cutting it anymore and the person you work with makes lots of nice plots in python and you want to be able to do that too…cool let’s begin. Here what we are going to do: How to get python installed Install an IDE Configure your environment Read a .csv or .xlsx Make a scatter plot Installing Python Firstly I’m going to offer my condolences for anyone with corporate managed computers, networks and especially those on windows, ANY of those things is going to make your life more difficult.