On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Matthew Rocklin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that data analysis should be done in some of the other popular
> python packages (numpy, pandas, statsmodels). I think that SymPy should see
> how it can serve and connect with these other packages.
>
> You mention distributions so I'll speak about sympy.stats for a moment. A
> while ago I talked with the statsmodels folks. They could use sympy in a
> couple of ways. They built their own rudimentary symbolic stats system that
> we could replace with sympy.stats. They also badly need symbolic derivatives
> which we could supply with sympy.core. Skipper, one of the developers of
> statsmodels started working on this connection a while ago but stopped. I
> probably could have made this work if I put more work in on the SymPy side.
>
> I don't think we should build analysis tools. I do think that we should do
> more outreach.

I think that having an interface to other tools would always be welcomed.

Ondrej

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