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Starting off...
Well, at some point I suppose I had to get a blog... This will be mostly a way to post occasional updates on projects I'm involved with for others to pick up via aggregators. This blog is registered as...
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Python tools for science go to SIAM: a trip report
Update (2008.08.06): I have posted the slides I have available from the minisymposium described below. The 2008 SIAM annual meeting was held July 7-11 in San Diego, and we had a healthy presence of...
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Book review: Expert Python Programming
Update: I've slightly modified the language of this review, which as my wife correctly pointed out to me, was unnecessarily harsh. While I stand by my previous evaluation of the book, I think the same...
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Python at the SIAM CSE'09 meeting
After the success of last year's Python minisymposium at the annual SIAM meeting, this year we had a repeat: Simula's Hans-Petter Langtangen (author of the well-known Python Scripting for Computational...
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Scipy advanced tutorials results
We recently conducted a poll on Doodle, soliciting feedback on the preferred topics for the advanced track, which is meant to contain 2 days with 8 2-hour sessions focusing on one specific topic at a...
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CSE'09 article in SIAM News
CSE'09 article in SIAM News This isn't fresh-off-the-oven news, but it's still on the main SIAM News page, so I'll mention it as I am trying to do a better job of keeping up with this blog... As I...
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Guido van Rossum at UC Berkeley's Py4Science
Update: Quick linksVideo of the entire session. The talks cover the first 50 minutes, and Guido's part starts at the 54 minute mark.A page with all the slides on my site.Guido also blogged his...
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Scientific Python tools use rising in education
It's pretty clear to me that Python is rapidly growing in acceptance as a computational platform at universities everywhere. I recently heard from Josh Bloom at UC Berkeley astronomy that his proposal...
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Reproducible Research at the AAAS 2011 meeting in Washington, DC
Update: added links to other related posts, significantly expanded the section on Git and Github for scientific work.Link summary:Page with abstracts and slide links, Victoria Stodden's blog, Mark...
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IPython and scientific Python go to Sage Days 29
Last week I was in Seattle, attending part of of the Sage Days 29 workshop, which had a strong focus on the more numerical/applied topics and the 'scipy ecosystem', as it's funded by William Stein's...
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Python goes to Reno: SIAM CSE 2011
In what's becoming a bit of a tradition, Simula's Hans-Petter Langtangen, U. Washington's Randy LeVeque and I co-organized yet another minisymposium on Python for Scientific computing at a SIAM...
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Austin trip: IPython at TACC and DataArray summit at Enthought
TACC Software Days I recently had the chance to speak at the UT Austin Texas Advanced Computing Center, during their Fifth Annual Scientific Software Day thanks to a kind invitation by Sergey Fomel and...
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The IPython notebook: a historical retrospective
On December 21 2011, we released IPython 0.12 after an intense 4 1/2 months of development. Along with a number of new features and bug fixes, the main highlight of this release is our new...
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Blogging with the IPython notebook
Update: made full github repo for blog-as-notebooks, and updated instructions on how to more easily configure everything and use the newest nbconvert for a more streamlined workflow.Since the notebook...
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Help save open space in the Bay Area by protecting Knowland Park from...
Vote NO on new Tax Measure A1 Update: there is now evidence that Zoo officials have actually violated election laws in their zeal to promote measure A1. I normally only blog about technical topics,...
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Back from PyCon Canada 2012
I just got back a few days ago from the 2012 edition of PyCon Canada, which was a great success. I wanted to thank the team who invited me for a fantastic experience: Diana Clarke who as conference...
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As "software eats the world" and we become awash in the flood of quantitative information denoted by the "Big Data" buzzword, it's clear that informed debate in society will increasingly depend on our...
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Exploring Open Data with Pandas and IPython at the Berkeley I School
"Working with Open Data", a course by Raymond Yee This will be a guest post, authored by Raymond Yee from the UC Berkeley School of Information (or I School, as it is known around here). This spring,...
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In Memoriam, John D. Hunter III: 1968-2012
I just returned from the SciPy 2013 conference, whose organizers kindly invited me to deliver a keynote. For me this was a particularly difficult, yet meaningful edition of SciPy, my favorite...
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An ambitious experiment in Data Science takes off: a biased, Open Source view...
Today, during a White House OSTP event combining government, academia and industry, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced a $37.8M funding commitment to...
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