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NumPy & SciPy with Travis Oliphant

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Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Travis Oliphant (@teoliphant) take a far-reaching tour through the history of the Python data community. Travis has had a hand in the creation of many open-source projects, most notably the influential libraries, NumPy and SciPy, which helped cement Python as the standard for scientific computing. Join us for the story of a fledgling community from a time “before open-source was cool,” and their lessons for today’s open-source landscape.

In this episode we discuss:

  • How biomedical engineering, MRIs, and an unhappy tenure committee led to NumPy and SciPy
  • Overcoming early challenges of distribution with Python
  • What Travis would have done differently when he wrote NumPy
  • Successfully solving the “two-option split” by adding a third option
  • Community-driven open-source interacting with company-backed open-source

    • Links:

    • NumPy
    • SciPy
    • Anaconda
    • Quansight
    • Conda
    • Matplotlib
    • Enthought
    • TensorFlow
    • PyTorch
    • MXNet
    • PyPi
    • Jupyter
    • pandas

      • People mentioned:

      • Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum)
      • Robert Kern (Github: @rkern)
      • Pearu Peterson (Github: @pearu)
      • Wes McKinney (@wesmckinn)
      • Charles Harris (Github: @charris)
      • Francesc Alted (@francescalted)
      • Fernando Perez (@fperez_org)
      • Brian Granger (@ellisonbg)

        • Other episodes:

        • TensorFlow with Rajat Monga
          • ...more
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