> I am trying to make a move from excel to python. My main need is
> economic data -- to do economic analysis. If you say Python and Excel the first thing that comes to mind is the xlrd package <snip> > The end game for me is making plots of variables, combining them, and > doing regressions -- i cannot see how i might take what i'm getting > from these FRED / Python dicts to actual data analysis. > > Could someone please help me take these first steps? I'm not familiar with the Fred package. Pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org/) seems to be perfect for what you're doing. It's an R-like layer on top of numpy. It can be used to read Excel and many other formats and it works well with matplotlib. It's a cool tool to manipulate/massage/munge data, then analyze it (though R has still more, often ueber-exotic, stats). Its origin lies in the analysis of... economic data. Best used with IPython. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
