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I have written about the ubiquity of Python<\/a>\u00a0before and I’ve also given a talk in that direction at this year’s FOSSGIS<\/a> conference (“Python as ‘glue’ in the GIS software domain: Sun glare analysis of road traffic accidents”<\/em>). There is also a video of my talk here<\/a>\u00a0(but beware, it’s in German).<\/p>\n

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So, this post<\/a> by Tal Yarkoni got me interested. Tal’s post is titled The homogenization of scientific computing, or why Python is steadily eating other languages\u2019 lunch<\/em>. It looks as if Tal’s been using a similar software stack as I do with extensive use of Python and R, some JavaScript and some forays into other languages. However, in Tal’s case that’s changed: he found himself using more and more Python, especially with packages such as NumPy\/SciPy, pandas, statsmodels, MatPlotLib, scikit-learn and more recently, seaborn and bokeh. (These latter ones are promising visualization libraries.)<\/p>\n

Especially in my work for the OII<\/a>, but more recently also more often with EBP<\/a>, I have been using R quite a lot. I like it primarily for its versatility and its large number of useful packages (such as plyr, Hmisc, relaimpo, car, ggplot2, etc.). However, I must concede that I’m quicker with Python for many tasks, possibly just because I use Python more often. Tal’s post has inspired me to venture further in my Python coding and to look at Python also for statistical modelling (an area where I typically used R until now). More on that hopefully soon.<\/p>\n

What languages and software are you using for your data analysis and visualization needs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have written about the ubiquity of Python\u00a0before and I’ve also given a talk in that direction at this year’s FOSSGIS conference (“Python as ‘glue’ in the GIS software domain: Sun glare analysis of road traffic accidents”). There is also a video of my talk here\u00a0(but beware, it’s in German). So, this post by Tal … Continue reading Ubiquity of Python<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[52,92,143,102,125],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","tag-geo","tag-python","tag-r","tag-software","tag-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Monty_Python.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-mP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}