diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -301,12 +301,6 @@ Anaconda is a free distribution of the Python programming language for large-sca
 
 Follow instructions to install [Anaconda](https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/install) or the more lightweight [miniconda](http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html).
 
-### pip-requirements
-
-If you prefer to use a more lightweight installation procedure than Anaconda, first clone the repo then run the following pip command on the provided requirements.txt file:
-
-    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
-
 ### dev-setup
 
 For detailed instructions, scripts, and tools to set up your development environment for data analysis, check out the [dev-setup](https://github.com/donnemartin/dev-setup) repo.
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-backports.ssl-match-hostname==3.4.0.2
-certifi==2015.4.28
-functools32==3.2.3.post1
-gnureadline==6.3.3
-ipython==3.2.0
-Jinja2==2.7.3
-jsonschema==2.5.1
-MarkupSafe==0.23
-matplotlib==1.4.3
-mistune==0.6
-mock==1.0.1
-nose==1.3.7
-numpy==1.9.2
-pandas==0.16.2
-ptyprocess==0.5
-Pygments==2.0.2
-pyparsing==2.0.3
-python-dateutil==2.4.2
-pytz==2015.4
-pyzmq==14.7.0
-scikit-learn==0.16.1
-scipy==0.15.1
-seaborn==0.6.0
-six==1.9.0
-sympy==0.7.6
-terminado==0.5
-tornado==4.2
-wheel==0.24.0