Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Switching From Perl to Python, Step 4 Basic Statistics


On August 28 2012 at 10am, the creator of matplotlib, John D. Hunter died from complications arising from cancer treatment, after a brief but intense battle with this terrible illness. John is survived by his wife Miriam, his three daughters Rahel, Ava and Clara, his sisters Layne and Mary, and his mother Sarah.
If you have benefited from John's many contributions, please say thanks in the way that would matter most to him. Please consider making a donation to the John Hunter Memorial Fund.

Rest in peace, John  Hunter (1968-August 28th, 2012). My sincere condolences to his family. Thank you for all your contribution. A great loss to the community.Thank you again.  

After learning the basics of Python, today i will try to implement some basic statistical methods including plotting. We need two important packages mathplotlib and scipy. I remember that there is also numpy library, a bit confused but it's explained very well in official scipy documentation:
"SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It is also the name of a very popular conference on scientific programming with Python. The SciPy library depends on NumPy, which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical routines such as routines for numerical integration and optimization."
i follow two useful blogs in order to learn how to plot and make basic statistical calculation by using pyton, after i learn these topics, i will search about machine learning libraries.




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