Re: find which Python libraries are most influential in scientific research

From	Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: find which Python libraries are most influential in scientific research
Date	2015-11-14 08:37 +0100
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In a message of Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:38:41 -0500, Terry Reedy writes:
>On 11/13/2015 10:58 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> On Nov 9, 2015 7:41 PM, "Heather Piwowar" <hpiwowar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Today's scientists often turn to Python to run analysis, simulation, and
>> other sciency tasks.
>>>
>>> That makes us wonder: which Python libraries are most influential in
>> scientific research?
>
>Numpy, scipy, ?, ?, ?, ...

I'd put money on

matplotlib
pandas


>>> We just released a tool (built in Python, of course) to answer that
>> question. It's called Depsy [1], it's funded by the US National Science
>> Foundation, and we'd love your comments.
>>>
>>> For more information, see our blog post [2] and paper [3].  The
>> scientific/engineering tag is a great place to start exploring [4].
>>>
>>> Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem
>>>
>>> 1. http://depsy.org
>>> 2. http://blog.impactstory.org/introducing-depsy
>>> 3.
>> https://github.com/Impactstory/depsy-research/blob/master/introducing_depsy.md
>>> 4. http://depsy.org/tag/scientific%252Fengineering
>>
>> FYI, the depsy.org site is completely unusable on my Android phone.
>
>Ditto Win10, Firefox.

Not looking good under FF here with debian unstable and a smallish
laptop screen, either.

Laura

>-- 
>Terry Jan Reedy

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find which Python libraries are most influential in scientific research Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 18:36 -0800
  Re: find which Python libraries are most influential in scientific research Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 20:58 -0700
    Re: find which Python libraries are most influential in scientific research Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-14 17:05 +1100
  Re: find which Python libraries are most influential in scientific research Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-14 00:38 -0500
  Re: find which Python libraries are most influential in scientific research Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-14 08:37 +0100

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