I use Python 3 and Jupyter Notebooks to generate plots and equations with linear regression on Kaggle data. I checked the correlations and built a basic machine learning model with this dataset.

If you're using the terminal, I recommend using IPython, as it has a lot of features to make interactive use easier and it's the basis for using Python in Jupyter.

The linked data includes: a database containing the criminal history, jail and prison time, demographics and COMPAS risk scores for defendants from Broward County from 2013 and 2014; code in R and ...