UW eScience Python Seminar: Fall 2015

Throughout UW’s 2015 fall quarter, we will meet weekly to hear from UW community members about the computational tools they use for their own research.

Schedule

  • Oct 5, 2015: no seminar this week due to eScience all-hands meeting

  • Oct 12, 2015: IPython: Beyond Normal Python (notebook) (Jake VanderPlas)

  • Oct 19, 2015: Fast Numerical Computing with NumPy (slides) (Jake VanderPlas)

  • Oct 26, 2015: Introduction to AstroPy (notebook) (Brett Morris)

  • Nov 2, 2015: Performance of Pandas Data Frames by Example (notebook) (Valentina Staneva)

  • Nov 9, 2015: Cython: Extending Python with C (Materials) (Ariel Rokem)

  • Nov 16, 2015: Scikit-Learn: Machine Learning in Python (Materials) (Jake VanderPlas)

  • Nov 23, 2015: Xray and Dask (notebook) (Anthony Arendt)

  • Nov 30, 2015: Bayesian Analysis with Python (notebook - solution) (Dan Foreman-Mackey)

  • Dec 7, 2015: Python and Social Networks (notebook) (Jose Manuel Magallanes)