title: Seaborn ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found
body: <p>I am getting the "ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found." when importing the module <strong>seaborn</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>I tried uninstalling both seaborn and matplotlib, then reinstalling by using </p>
  
  <pre><code>pip install seaborn 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but no luck. I still get the same error. </p>
  
  <pre><code>ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
  &lt;ipython-input-5-085c0287ecb5&gt; in &lt;module&gt;()
  ----&gt; 1 import seaborn
  
  C:\Users\johnsam\venv\lib\site-packages\seaborn\__init__.py in &lt;module&gt;()
        4 
        5 # Import seaborn objects
  ----&gt; 6 from .rcmod import *
        7 from .utils import *
        8 from .palettes import *
  
  C:\Users\johnsam\venv\lib\site-packages\seaborn\rcmod.py in &lt;module&gt;()
        6 import matplotlib as mpl
        7 
  ----&gt; 8 from . import palettes, _orig_rc_params
        9 
       10 
  
  C:\Users\johnsam\venv\lib\site-packages\seaborn\palettes.py in &lt;module&gt;()
       10 from .external.six.moves import range
       11 
  ---&gt; 12 from .utils import desaturate, set_hls_values, get_color_cycle
       13 from .xkcd_rgb import xkcd_rgb
       14 from .crayons import crayons
  
  C:\Users\johnsam\venv\lib\site-packages\seaborn\utils.py in &lt;module&gt;()
        6 
        7 import numpy as np
  ----&gt; 8 from scipy import stats
        9 import pandas as pd
       10 import matplotlib as mpl
  
  C:\Program Files\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\__init__.py in &lt;module&gt;()
      332 from __future__ import division, print_function, absolute_import
      333 
  --&gt; 334 from .stats import *
      335 from .distributions import *
      336 from .rv import *
  
  C:\Program Files\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\stats.py in &lt;module&gt;()
      179 from scipy.lib.six import callable, string_types
      180 from numpy import array, asarray, ma, zeros, sum
  --&gt; 181 import scipy.special as special
      182 import scipy.linalg as linalg
      183 import numpy as np
  
  C:\Program Files\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scipy\special\__init__.py in &lt;module&gt;()
      544 from __future__ import division, print_function, absolute_import
      545 
  --&gt; 546 from ._ufuncs import *
      547 
      548 from .basic import *
  
  ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to get around this error?</p>