[PSF-Community] [gravitational-waves] A big thanks to the contributors in Python

[C. Titus Brown]

I'm not sure how many people realize it, but Python (+ ipython/jupyter, pandas,
matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc. etc.) has become one of the two mainstays of
data analysis and visualization in the biological sciences -- along with R.

Everyone should keep up the good work - the science crowd is doing its best
to put it to good use :)

cheers,
--titus

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 01:32:33PM -0400, John Gill wrote:
> Thanks for posting this.
> 
> I am thrilled to hear that python has played such a key role in an
> incredible piece of work.
> 
> And I will second your thanks to John Hunter.  
> 
> Many years ago I was looking for some plotting software and stumbled on
> matplotlib.  I sent off a patch for stacked bar plots.  A few hours
> later I received an incredibly encouraging email that spurred me to make
> more changes.  He was a delight to work.
> 
> I remember him fondly every time a matplotlib plot renders.
> 
> John
> 
> Khaled Monsoor <k at kmonsoor.com> writes:
> 
> > hello everyone in this wonderful community,
> >
> > probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO about existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of
> > relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
> >
> > what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in
> > day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2].
> > Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4]
> >
> > i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations.??
> > Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single
> > contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits.
> > We facilitated something bigger than us.
> >
> > i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with
> > cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through 2-D matplotlib plots.
> >
> > Thanks everyone.
> >
> > Khaled Monsoor,
> > a common user of Python
> >
> > refs:
> > [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_collaboration_and_we/czxnlux
> > [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png
> > [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html
> > [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
> >
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C. Titus Brown, ctbrown at ucdavis.edu