Tag Archives: Science

Enthought Python Distribution, now with basemap

Posted on 2008/09/23 by vnoel

A new beta 2 of the Enthought Python Distribution has been released. It includes updates to the latest versions of wxPython (2.8.7.1), VTK (5.2), IPython (0.9.1), matplotlib (0.98.3), ETS (3.0.2) and some other stuff. It looks like NumPy is still … Continue reading →

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Python in Science proceedings

Posted on 2008/09/22 by vnoel

The proceedings for Scipy2008 (ie the 7th Python in Science conference) are now online. It would be worth mentioning for the State of Scipy article alone, but there’s tons of nifty up-to-date information there, which is hard to get otherwise … Continue reading →

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Python for Science on Mac: Enthought Python Distribution

Posted on 2008/07/07 by vnoel

As a sort-of follow-up to my own post praising SAGE as an all-in-one Python distribution including tons of science goodies, I want to also point out that the Enthought Python Distribution is now available in beta form for Mac OS … Continue reading →

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Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage

Posted on 2008/05/03 by vnoel

For the past two months or so, I’ve been slowly migrating my scientific workflow (that’s a fancy way of saying “my chaotic data hacking”) from Matlab ((R) (TM) (C)) to Python. The results are overwhelmingly positive, so I’d like to … Continue reading →

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Scientific talks, “Lessig style”

Posted on 2008/05/01 by vnoel

Nice write-up on using the “Lessig style” of presentations for scientific talks. I especially liked this bit: I reused slides frequently — even if just to flash the slide before them — in order to remind them of what they’ve … Continue reading →

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