This document summarizes a report about PyCon Taiwan 2013 from the perspective of a data mining engineer. Key points include: maintaining Hadoop and BI tools; the conference had around 500 people mainly from academia; talks covered Python 3 differences, algorithms, data collection, and machine learning algorithms like boosting in scikit-learn. Python has many libraries useful for data scientists like NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, NLTK, and Matplotlib. The conference showed the growing use of Python for statistical analysis and machine learning.