[IPython-dev] Docker IPython

[Dave Hirschfeld]

Fernando Perez <fperez.net <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl <at> gmail.com> 
wrote:If you call it scipystack, please put Sympy and nose in as well - a 
long and heated discussion last year settled on a core set of packages 
that distributions describing themselves as shipping the Scipy Stack 
should include:http://www.scipy.org/stackspec.html
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> +1. Let's use the 'scipy stack' term as per the above.
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> I actually would vote for the 'extended' stack, that includes a few 
packages that in the real world lots of people do use/need, like 
sklearn/image. Here's a slightly outdated version of that:
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> https://speakerdeck.com/fperez/pydata-2013-keynote-ipython-and-friends?
slide=8
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> Today I'd probably drop Mayav/PyTables (too specialized) but add 
Seaborn (lightweight, easy, plays beautifully with pandas).
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> That would make a very compelling image out of the box, with minimal 
additional complexity (while there's extension code in those, none of 
them are harder than scipy itself).
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> Cheers,
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> f-- Fernando Perez ( <at> fperez_org; http://fperez.org)

PyTables could be handy as it's an optional dependency for pandas which 
IIUC allows you to store pandas objects in hdf5 via the HDFStore which is 
becoming a very common way to store pandas objects.

-Dave