Paul Romer, 2018 Economics Nobel Laureate, uses Python and Jupyter

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Terry Reedy wrote:

> https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-the-research-paper/
> Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
> Paul Romer, new Nobel prize winner in economics, for research on how 
> ideas interact with economic growth, explained last April why he has 
> switched from Mathematica to Jupyter.

Well done, Terry, for spotting this. I hope you don't mind, I've changed the subject to give Paul Romer star billing. I think he deserves it.

Here's some URLs on Romer and Python.

https://qz.com/1417145/economics-nobel-laureate-paul-romer-is-a-python-programming-convert/
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/10/09/0042240/economics-nobel-laureate-paul-romer-is-a-python-programming-convert
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/9mhxq2/this_years_nobel_prize_in_economics_was_awarded/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173812&ref=hvper.com&utm_source=hvper.com&utm_medium=website
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-in-economics-goes-to-american-pair-1538992672

And some related URLs

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01322-9 # Future of online publishing
https://pypi.org/project/nobel/ # Python interface to Nobel Prize API!
https://jfine2358.github.io/slides/2018-nature-jupyter-altair-vega-binder.html

And some Python code:

>>> import nobel
>>> api = nobel.Api()
>>> api.prizes.filter(year=2018, category='economics')[0].laureates[1].surname
u'Romer'

-- 
Jonathan