At Pycon Italia Sette we're already busy arranging for one of the (Italian) astrophysicists who worked on LIGO to give us a keynote about this (he's come to most previous Python conferences in Firenze so we should be able to convince him:-) even though this requires some reshuffling of the schedule which had just been announced -- seems well worth it!
Alex On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > The world of academic science remains opaque to many in the computing > world, but I am happy to say that thanks to your good work and particularly > to the whole Software Carpentry initiative scientists are slowly opening > their eyed to good software engineering practices. The recent LIGO > publications are a testament not only to Python's readability and general > usefulness, but also to the work of the many scientific computing devotees > who have spent time making the Python ecosystem so usable and approachable. > > Steve Holden > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:34 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctbr...@ucdavis.edu> > wrote: > >> I'm not sure how many people realize it, but Python (+ ipython/jupyter, >> pandas, >> matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc. etc.) has become one of the two mainstays >> of >> data analysis and visualization in the biological sciences -- along with >> R. >> >> Everyone should keep up the good work - the science crowd is doing its >> best >> to put it to good use :) >> >> cheers, >> --titus >> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 01:32:33PM -0400, John Gill wrote: >> > Thanks for posting this. >> > >> > I am thrilled to hear that python has played such a key role in an >> > incredible piece of work. >> > >> > And I will second your thanks to John Hunter. >> > >> > Many years ago I was looking for some plotting software and stumbled on >> > matplotlib. I sent off a patch for stacked bar plots. A few hours >> > later I received an incredibly encouraging email that spurred me to make >> > more changes. He was a delight to work. >> > >> > I remember him fondly every time a matplotlib plot renders. >> > >> > John >> > >> > Khaled Monsoor <k...@kmonsoor.com> writes: >> > >> > > hello everyone in this wonderful community, >> > > >> > > probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO about >> existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of >> > > relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human >> endeavour to understand nature. >> > > >> > > what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of >> software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in >> > > day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], >> gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty >> graphs[2]. >> > > Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among >> the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4] >> > > >> > > i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations.?? >> > > Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a >> open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single >> > > contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. >> > > We facilitated something bigger than us. >> > > >> > > i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John >> D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with >> > > cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations >> through 2-D matplotlib plots. >> > > >> > > Thanks everyone. >> > > >> > > Khaled Monsoor, >> > > a common user of Python >> > > >> > > refs: >> > > [1]: >> https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_collaboration_and_we/czxnlux >> > > [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png >> > > [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html >> > > [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > PSF-Community mailing list >> > > PSF-Community@python.org >> > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PSF-Community mailing list >> > PSF-Community@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community >> >> -- >> C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu >> _______________________________________________ >> PSF-Community mailing list >> PSF-Community@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community >> > > > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community > >
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