[omaha] an article I just came across in one of my subscriptions

[Jay Hannah]

On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:11 PM, Shawn Hermans <shawnhermans at gmail.com> wrote:
> Funny you bring up the science/Python connection.  I just wrote up a blog
> on using Python and Pig to do analysis of satellite orbital element sets (
> http://blog.shawnhermans.com/2013/01/pigs-in-space.html).

Ooo! I linked to your blog entry. Thanks!  :)

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j







Begin forwarded message:
> From: Shawn Hermans <shawnhermans at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [omaha] an article I just came across in one of my subscriptions
> Date: January 30, 2013 8:11:16 PM CST
> To: Omaha Python Users Group <omaha at python.org>
> Reply-To: Omaha Python Users Group <omaha at python.org>
> 
> Funny you bring up the science/Python connection.  I just wrote up a blog
> on using Python and Pig to do analysis of satellite orbital element sets (
> http://blog.shawnhermans.com/2013/01/pigs-in-space.html).  I am also using
> Python in my day job for doing data analysis with Scikits and Pandas.  Some
> really great tools out there.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <jeffh at dundeemt.com>wrote:
> 
>> That was an interesting article.  I am not surprised at it either.
>> Astronomers and Physicists have become enamored with Python too over the
>> past 5 to 7 years.  NumPy and SciPy have a lot to do with that plus the
>> ability to interface with long established Fortran routines.
>> 
>> The cognitive load that python carries in comparison to other languages
>> makes a huge win for sciences.   Keeping simple things simple and not
>> distracting you from the task at hand is gigantic.  Then when you really
>> need to optimize, your options are quite broad.
>> 
>> Thanks for posting the story!
>> 
>> -Jeff
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:23 PM, James Drake <jim.drake at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Lin, Johnny Wei-Bing, 2012: Why Python Is the Next Wave in Earth Sciences
>>> Computing. *Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.*, *93*, 1823–1824.
>>> doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00148.1 Creighton and the U. of
>>> Nebraska should have BAMS in their collections. Their is a fair chance that
>>> some of the Nebraska public libraries do too through Nebraskaccess, to home
>>> users, but I haven't checked.
>>> 
>>> There is a blog and mailing list to Python as applied to atmsopheric and
>>> oceanic sciences (AOS): http://pyaos.johnny-lin.com. "New AOS users may
>>> find the book, *A Hands-On Introduction to Using Python in the Atmospheric
>>> and Oceanic Sciences,* to be more tailored to their workflow; it is
>>> available online in a free version at www.johnny-lin.com/pyintro."
>>> 
>>> The article briefly discusses the pros and cons of Python in AOS.
>>> 
>>> -- Jim
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