Hello Andrew, thanks for taking the time to reply. First of all, let me clarify that I received a proposal (and not the opposite) so some decision were already made about the book format.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 20:00, Andrew Straw <straw...@astraw.com> wrote: > Hi Sandro, > > It's great news that a book may come out on MPL. > > Speaking as an aspiring university professor in neuroscience, I would > like to see something that could be used as a resource for undergraduate > students just learning Python and MPL. The cut of the book is for already experienced Python programmers. For sure, in the "approaching" chapter to mpl, I won't go too much into deep of python programming, and I suppose they'll be easy to read even for new comers. > Due to this perspective, I think > such a book would cover both numpy and MPL. The emphasis could clearly > by on MPL, but basic numpy idioms and concepts should also be taught. Mh, the focus the editor would like to see is about introducing mpl + integrating into apps. The examples I have in mind for the pratical part of apps integration already cointains some sort of "introduction" to gather data and plot them (but I can't go to much on the scientific side :) ). I will propose a chapter like "Matplotlib for the science" and here your suggestion on what you'd like to see there is welcome. > I > think an example-driven approach would be very useful -- something like > an undergraduate laboratory experiment where students measure and plot > raw values and compute histograms and statistics (e.g. mean and std). > More advanced sections might perform statistical comparisons of > different treatments (e.g. using chi squared, KS and/or T tests), do > linear least squares fitting (with np.linalg.lstsq), and possibly > non-linear curve fitting using something like scipy.optimize.fmin. That could be a beginning of that chapter contents: more more more ideas :) > That's my self-serving $0.02, since you asked! :) And they are very much welcome!! > You may also want to speak with John Hunter and Fernando Perez about the > possibility of collaborating -- they've already done some work towards a > book, too. I'm sure be happy to hear their voice on this product, but (given the preamble) I don't know if the editor would be fine with co-authorship; I'll ask, just to be sure. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
