Last week I was in Seattle, attending part of of the Sage Days 29 workshop, which had a strong focus on the more numerical/applied topics and the 'scipy ecosystem', as it's funded by William Stein's Sage: Unifying Mathematical Software for Scientists, Engineers, and Mathematicians grant. I gave a talk that covered topics that are fairly familiar to many in the scipy community, about using Python for numerical work, but was intended to address many from the Sage group who come from a pure mathematics/number theory background. I have posted the PDF of my slides ; William recorded the talk and posted it online, as well as posting some pictures from the last day (the anecdote about how I unplugged Colombia from the internet when I was a physics undergrad is from 0:11:20 to 0:14:12): For me, the bulk of the workshop's focus was to make progress on IPython. Thomas Kluyver , a new core IPython developer, was able to take a week off from his studies and attend...
Thoughts and notes on open scientific computing, with a focus on Python-based tools (IPython, numpy, scipy, matplotlib and friends). By Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley Statistics and Data Science Professor. Website at fernandoperez.org.