of coursedata mining is used for more than generating sales for examplepeople use data mining to perform tasks such as locating new planets around stars or other types of analysis that increase our knowledge of the universe python figures into this sort of data mining as well you can likely find books and other resources dedicated to any kind of data mining that you want to performwith many of them mentioning python as the language of choice interacting with embedded systems an embedded system exists for nearly every purpose on the planet for exampleif you own programmable thermostat for your houseyou're interacting with an embedded system raspberry pi (mentioned earlier in the is an example of more complex embedded system many embedded systems rely on python as their programming language in facta special form of pythonembedded python (embeddedpython)is sometimes used for these devices you can even find youtube presentation on using python to build an embedded system at interestingly enoughyou might already be interacting with python-driven embedded system for examplepython is the language of choice for many car security systems (start feature that you might have relies on python to get the job done your home automation and security system (article/ might also rely on python python is so popular for embedded systems because it doesn' require compilation an embedded-system vendor can create an update for any embedded system and simply upload the python file the interpreter automatically uses this file without having to upload any new executables or jump through any of the types of hoops that other languages can require carrying out scientific tasks python seems to devote more time to scientific and numerical processing tasks than many of the computer languages out there the number of python' scientific and numeric processing modules is staggering (wiki python org/moin/numericandscientificscientists love python because it' smalleasy to learnand yet quite precise in its treatment of data it' possible to produce results using just few lines code yes