Episode Details

Python is one of the most widely used programming languages in research and science. How did it come to that. And what makes Python special? It's something I discuss with my guest in this episode, Robin Wilson, who also takes us through some of the less favourable or more complex aspects of the language.

Links

• http://www.rtwilson.com Robert Wilson
  • https://blog.rtwilson.com Robert's blog posts
• https://www.python.org
• https://anaconda.org Anaconda Python distribution
• https://jupyter.org all things Jupyter
• https://ipython.org iPython
• https://inference-review.com/article/the-origins-of-python
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

Python libraries for science

• https://numpy.org 
• https://scipy.org 
• https://pandas.pydata.org
• https://scikit-learn.org/stable/

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Producer and Host: Peter Schmidt