On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Matt Stumbaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm very interested. > > As a side note, I've been working with some big datasets in numpy and NetCDF > and have found that the product of creating a pickled numpy array versus > creating a netcdf file directly is about 3x bigger. But since these days > I'm having to work on Windows w/ Cygwin and the fact that getting matplotlib > made on Cygwin is really tenuous, I've been creating the nc files, using > netcdf operators to get hyperslabs and perform basic calcs, then running a > conversion to a pickled numpy array to leverage matplotlib (on Windows). > Numpy and matplotlib are wonderful aspects of wonderful Python. I've > definitely drank the kool-aid! > > Someday, I'd like to hear a talk about extending python (wrapping C) and > embedding it in C and using ctypes. Though I'd definitely like it to be > lite since I'm hardly paper thin on C.
Last time we considered a NumPy talk, we came up with more topics than would fit in one talk. We were going to do a series of 2-3 talks this spring if you remember, until the Gulf spill hit and took all of Chris' time. But we can revive that now. Maybe not multiple talks consecutively, but over the next several months. Anyway, Matt, there's a wiki page for talks wanted, so if you put these ideas there maybe somebody will do it. http://seapig.org/FutureTalks (Same as "suggest potential talks" link on the home page.) BTW, there's another team considering an October talk (on PostgreSQL with Python), so we'll see which team is more eager. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
