> > I don't think we should build analysis tools. I do think that we should do > more outreach.
Speaking as a noob with a lot of this, I wonder if one way to start would be to move documentation closer together. Perhaps even interlink a bit. I generally agree with the division of labor among these different packages, but I understand where the instinct comes from to make SymPy expand its role-- its easy to feel like each package is its own island. As I'm trying to find a way to do something, I need to make a conscious effort to jump to a different documentation tree on a different site. Having a shared hub for what I'd call scientific computing packages might help me, at least, take in more of whats available and give a better perspective to what functionality belongs in which package. 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<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/sympy/skipper/sympy/DViO43-qtM4/6jMMew5twF8J>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. > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Sachin Joglekar > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> It was recently pointed out to me that though Sympy has much of the >> theoretical classes used in data analysis, there are no straightforward >> analysis tools in any module of Sympy. Something like those present in the >> statistical analysis language R. Sympy already has classes for all >> important distributions. It would just be a question of providing an >> 'interface' to make analysis easier, for eg, dealing with .csv files, etc. >> Would it be a useful addition to the code base? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sympy/-/ThBVoQL-0W4J. >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
