Wes McKinney describes Pandas, a library for data analysis written in Python. Pandas sits on top of NumPy, and provides many of the same manipulation possibilities as the R language.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Eric Jones on NumPy and Matplotlib
A long (3 hours!) but thorough introduction to NumPy and Matplotlib, by Eric Jones. If you are interested in scientific computing with Python, or if you want to learn NumPy and Matplotlib, then this will likely give you the boost you need. Notes and exercise files can be downloaded from here.
Ezra Zygmuntowicz: “What a long Strange Trip it has been”
Ezra Zygmuntowicz, a leading light in the Ruby on Rails community, died last week. In this talk from RailsConf 2012, Ezra described his history with Ruby on Rails, from introduction until the present day.