UCSD Scientific Python User Group

Next meeting: Wednesday October 16th 2013 11:30am-12:30pm Skaggs School of Pharmacy Room 1186

Mission

The Scientific Python User Group was created to foster an informal environment for students to learn more about the constantly expanding scientific Python ecosystem. We plan to have monthly meeting structured with two students giving short presentations on how they use open-source Python resources to support their research. We have established three major goals:

• To further develop awareness and knowledge of the growing pool of resources within the Python ecosystem and how they can be used within diverse areas of academic research.
• To expose students to good software practices and highlight the technical underpinnings that are crucial to good research but often get skipped over in traditional research presentations.
• To encourage use and contribution to open- source scientific software.

Mailing List

Sign up to receive email notifications for meetings:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/ucsd-scientific-python

Past Presentations

February 6, 2013

A tour of the scientific Python stack.

Presenter: Andrew Gross. Presentation notebook

April 10th, 2013

Software development for Python in 30 minutes

Presenter: Gabriel Pratt. slides

Implementing graphic design principles in matplotlib

Presenter: Olga Botvinnik. View the iPython notebook of the presentation here.

May 1, 2013

Building Networks from the Scriptures + An Overview of EPD Canopy

Presenter: Gordon Bean. View the iPython notebook of the presentation here.

October 16, 2013

Overview

Bootstrap in the IPython Notebook nbviewer

Presenter: Andy Gross

Fancy heatmaps in Matplotlib using GridSpec nbviewer

Presenter: Chris DeBoever

September 11, 2014

Getting IPython Notebook setup in a server and deploying user-specific notebooks.

Presenter: Justin Kiggins.

Show and Tell