On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:14 AM, David Goldsmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:42:46 -0700 >> >> From: Adam Feuer <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [SEAPY] Talk on NumPy: desired content? >> To: A group of Python users in Seattle >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:34 PM, David Goldsmith >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, seapiggies (or do we not like to be called that ;-)? ).? So, Mike >> > may >> > have been a bit pre-mature committing Chris and I to do a May 13 talk on >> > NumPy >> >> Will you cover SciPy topics as well...? How about using NumPy and >> SciPy to do signal processing? Like IIR filters in Python? > > Unfortunately I think that's probably a big enough topic for it's own talk > (and I'd have to do quite a bit of boning-up on it to give the talk > myself). Chris will correct me if I'm wrong, but, unlike NumPy, SciPy AFAIK > isn't as "multi-purpose" as NumPy - a large part of the justification for > giving a NumPy talk to a general audience is that NumPy's center - the > ndarray object - was designed to provide n-dimensional array support outside > of just mathematical applications; I'm not aware of any similar aspect of > SciPy.
It would be fine as a separate talk, but as David said I wouldn't want to shortchange the general Numpy talk. BTW, the talk may be postponed till June to give more time to prepare it. I'm just waiting for an official word from the speakers. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
