Python Hour - 26 January 2015
Meeting summary
There was no agenda for this meeting so we reverted to our usual open discussion format.
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Someone asked about online Python courses and a few people mentioned that Coursera has offered several Python courses in the past. Jesse recommended taking the high performance scientific computing course hosted by UW. Earle also refered to the Software Carpentry lessons page as another good online resource.
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The topic of git and version control came up again. This time, Dan gave a nice demo of how he combines git and dropbox to log the edits he makes to his Ph.D. thesis.
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JPaul gave a demo on how to make a simple line plot using matplotlib. He also introduced the GridSpec module as a convenient tool for customizing subplots.