Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013
Benjamin Root writes: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Phil Elson wrote: > > >I am putting together a beginners tutorial proposal that I will submit > soon > > That's great to hear! Are you planning on making the tutorial material > part of mpl's docs or using the content that is already out there? > > It is all new stuff, but I have been taking inspirations from other tutorials > I have seen and said to myself "You are all teaching it wrong!" :-P > > I am ignoring pylab (risky, I know), starting with a *very* basic NumPy > primer, and then moving on to teach matplotlib from the perspective of "here > are what the parts of a plot are called and what they are for, and see what > happens when we put those parts together". It is an ingredients approach, > essentially. Just for the record: over the last few years I have assembled a document which is more a collection of facts and tricks on Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib which seems orthogonal to your goals. I am trying to get students in numerical analysis or similar courses operational as quickly as possible. So I am taking pylab as a baseline. (So really a Matlab replacement, although most students will not have had any close contact with Matlab...) Any comments are welcome. Some more nice matplotlib examples are on my wish list, but I have not found time yet... PDF: http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver/teaching/numpy-intro/numpy-intro.pdf HTML: http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver/teaching/numpy-intro/numpy-intro/index.html Sources: http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver/teaching/numpy-intro/ I have been argued back and forth with myself whether I should make it more pythonic (as most of the "official" matplotlib examples are), but then on the ground where class time is precious, I came to appreciate the simplicity of pylab-style code. Regards, Marcel - Marcel Oliver Phone: +49-421-200-3212 School of Engineering and Science Fax: +49-421-200-3103 Jacobs University [email protected] Campus Ring 1 [email protected] 28759 Bremen, Germany http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver - -- Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d ___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I'm hoping to host a matplotlib sprint during the final two days of Scipy > 2013 this year, and I hope to see as many as possible of you there. I > think it's also really important to bring new developers into sprints, > because it's such an efficient way to get people familiar with the code > base. > > It might be helpful to start brainstorming now about which projects we may > want to tackle so that we can have as much in place as possible by then and > hit the ground running. > > I've set up a wiki page here: > > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Scipy-2013 > > Getting a bit back on the original topic of the SciPy sprints, there are some things I have learned from last year's sprints. First off, there are going to be a lot of newbies there who do not even have a developer setup, let alone a source install of matplotlib. Myself and a few other people spent several hours fumbling around with getting the Mac users set up properly. With me not being a Mac user, I felt very helpless. We need to be better prepared for these users (as well as the Windows users). Second, working on matplotlib isn't very "sexy" (at least, insofar as working on ipython, or one of the scikits). Most of the attendees are specialized scientists who only cares enough about matplotlib to produce "the plot" for their work. Getting attendees to join your sprint is a hard sell. This is not meant to discourage you, but rather to help better frame what the tasks and goals should be for matplotlib at the sprints. I wish I was this prepared last year. You are off to a much better start than I was. Cheers! Ben Root -- Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Michael Droettboom > wrote: >> >> I'm hoping to host a matplotlib sprint during the final two days of Scipy >> 2013 this year, and I hope to see as many as possible of you there. I think >> it's also really important to bring new developers into sprints, because >> it's such an efficient way to get people familiar with the code base. >> >> It might be helpful to start brainstorming now about which projects we may >> want to tackle so that we can have as much in place as possible by then and >> hit the ground running. >> >> I've set up a wiki page here: >> >> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Scipy-2013 >> > > Getting a bit back on the original topic of the SciPy sprints, there are > some things I have learned from last year's sprints. First off, there are > going to be a lot of newbies there who do not even have a developer setup, > let alone a source install of matplotlib. Myself and a few other people > spent several hours fumbling around with getting the Mac users set up > properly. With me not being a Mac user, I felt very helpless. We need to > be better prepared for these users (as well as the Windows users). > > Second, working on matplotlib isn't very "sexy" (at least, insofar as > working on ipython, or one of the scikits). Most of the attendees are > specialized scientists who only cares enough about matplotlib to produce > "the plot" for their work. Getting attendees to join your sprint is a hard > sell. This is not meant to discourage you, but rather to help better frame > what the tasks and goals should be for matplotlib at the sprints. > > I wish I was this prepared last year. You are off to a much better start > than I was. > > Cheers! > Ben Root Ben, This is incredibly useful information. I have never been to a sprint before so this valuable knowledge to have. Since I'm a mac user, perhaps I could put together a 'source install walkthrough' or something? That might help us save some time fumbling at the beginning of the sprint. -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences 201 E. 24th St. Stop C0200 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1229 -- Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d ___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
[matplotlib-devel] 1.2.1 tagged
I have tagged and uploaded the tarball for the 1.2.1 final release. Thanks to all for their hard work on this! I think the quality of this release is very high. http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.2.1/matplotlib-1.2.1.tar.gz/download Once the binaries have been posted and the website download links have been updated, I'll make a formal announcement in the usual channels. Mike -- Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d ___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013
On 03/26/2013 10:57 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Michael Droettboom >> wrote: >>> I'm hoping to host a matplotlib sprint during the final two days of Scipy >>> 2013 this year, and I hope to see as many as possible of you there. I think >>> it's also really important to bring new developers into sprints, because >>> it's such an efficient way to get people familiar with the code base. >>> >>> It might be helpful to start brainstorming now about which projects we may >>> want to tackle so that we can have as much in place as possible by then and >>> hit the ground running. >>> >>> I've set up a wiki page here: >>> >>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Scipy-2013 >>> >> Getting a bit back on the original topic of the SciPy sprints, there are >> some things I have learned from last year's sprints. First off, there are >> going to be a lot of newbies there who do not even have a developer setup, >> let alone a source install of matplotlib. Myself and a few other people >> spent several hours fumbling around with getting the Mac users set up >> properly. With me not being a Mac user, I felt very helpless. We need to >> be better prepared for these users (as well as the Windows users). >> >> Second, working on matplotlib isn't very "sexy" (at least, insofar as >> working on ipython, or one of the scikits). Most of the attendees are >> specialized scientists who only cares enough about matplotlib to produce >> "the plot" for their work. Getting attendees to join your sprint is a hard >> sell. This is not meant to discourage you, but rather to help better frame >> what the tasks and goals should be for matplotlib at the sprints. >> >> I wish I was this prepared last year. You are off to a much better start >> than I was. >> >> Cheers! >> Ben Root > Ben, > > This is incredibly useful information. I have never been to a sprint > before so this valuable knowledge to have. Since I'm a mac user, > perhaps I could put together a 'source install walkthrough' or > something? That might help us save some time fumbling at the > beginning of the sprint. > Damon -- I think that would be very helpful. I can do the same for major Linux distros. Sadly,Windows is much more complex and I'm not even terribly up on current best practices there. Any volunteers? Mike -- Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d ___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013
On 03/26/2013 11:18 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 03/26/2013 10:57 AM, Damon McDougall wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Michael Droettboom >>> wrote: I'm hoping to host a matplotlib sprint during the final two days of Scipy 2013 this year, and I hope to see as many as possible of you there. I think it's also really important to bring new developers into sprints, because it's such an efficient way to get people familiar with the code base. It might be helpful to start brainstorming now about which projects we may want to tackle so that we can have as much in place as possible by then and hit the ground running. I've set up a wiki page here: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Scipy-2013 >>> Getting a bit back on the original topic of the SciPy sprints, there >>> are >>> some things I have learned from last year's sprints. First off, >>> there are >>> going to be a lot of newbies there who do not even have a developer >>> setup, >>> let alone a source install of matplotlib. Myself and a few other >>> people >>> spent several hours fumbling around with getting the Mac users set up >>> properly. With me not being a Mac user, I felt very helpless. We >>> need to >>> be better prepared for these users (as well as the Windows users). >>> >>> Second, working on matplotlib isn't very "sexy" (at least, insofar as >>> working on ipython, or one of the scikits). Most of the attendees are >>> specialized scientists who only cares enough about matplotlib to >>> produce >>> "the plot" for their work. Getting attendees to join your sprint is >>> a hard >>> sell. This is not meant to discourage you, but rather to help >>> better frame >>> what the tasks and goals should be for matplotlib at the sprints. >>> >>> I wish I was this prepared last year. You are off to a much better >>> start >>> than I was. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Ben Root >> Ben, >> >> This is incredibly useful information. I have never been to a sprint >> before so this valuable knowledge to have. Since I'm a mac user, >> perhaps I could put together a 'source install walkthrough' or >> something? That might help us save some time fumbling at the >> beginning of the sprint. >> > Damon -- I think that would be very helpful. I can do the same for > major Linux distros. Sadly,Windows is much more complex and I'm not > even terribly up on current best practices there. Any volunteers? Also -- should we set up a shared place (either a git repo or just a wiki page) to collaborate on any of these materials? Mike -- Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d ___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.1 tagged
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I have tagged and uploaded the tarball for the 1.2.1 final release. > Thanks to all for their hard work on this! I think the quality of this > release is very high. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.2.1/matplotlib-1.2.1.tar.gz/download > > Once the binaries have been posted and the website download links have > been updated, I'll make a formal announcement in the usual channels. > > Mike Thanks, Mike, for your hard work and perseverance. As usual Russell, let me know if you have build issues on the Mac. Happy Tuesday everybody. Best wishes, Damon -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences 201 E. 24th St. Stop C0200 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1229 -- Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d ___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
