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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
