[gravitational-waves] A big thanks to the contributors in Python
hello everyone in this wonderful community, probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO <http://www.ligo.org/> about existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to understand nature. what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4] i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations. Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. We facilitated something bigger than us. i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through 2-D matplotlib plots. Thanks everyone. Khaled Monsoor, a common user of Python refs: [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_col... [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
Thanks for posting this. I am thrilled to hear that python has played such a key role in an incredible piece of work. And I will second your thanks to John Hunter. Many years ago I was looking for some plotting software and stumbled on matplotlib. I sent off a patch for stacked bar plots. A few hours later I received an incredibly encouraging email that spurred me to make more changes. He was a delight to work. I remember him fondly every time a matplotlib plot renders. John Khaled Monsoor <k@kmonsoor.com> writes:
hello everyone in this wonderful community,
probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO about existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4]
i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations. Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. We facilitated something bigger than us.
i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through 2-D matplotlib plots.
Thanks everyone.
Khaled Monsoor, a common user of Python
refs: [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_col... [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
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I'm not sure how many people realize it, but Python (+ ipython/jupyter, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc. etc.) has become one of the two mainstays of data analysis and visualization in the biological sciences -- along with R. Everyone should keep up the good work - the science crowd is doing its best to put it to good use :) cheers, --titus On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 01:32:33PM -0400, John Gill wrote:
Thanks for posting this.
I am thrilled to hear that python has played such a key role in an incredible piece of work.
And I will second your thanks to John Hunter.
Many years ago I was looking for some plotting software and stumbled on matplotlib. I sent off a patch for stacked bar plots. A few hours later I received an incredibly encouraging email that spurred me to make more changes. He was a delight to work.
I remember him fondly every time a matplotlib plot renders.
John
Khaled Monsoor <k@kmonsoor.com> writes:
hello everyone in this wonderful community,
probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO about existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4]
i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations.?? Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. We facilitated something bigger than us.
i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through 2-D matplotlib plots.
Thanks everyone.
Khaled Monsoor, a common user of Python
refs: [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_col... [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
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Hey all,
On Feb 16, 2016, at 06:34, C. Titus Brown <ctbrown@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
I'm not sure how many people realize it, but Python (+ ipython/jupyter, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc. etc.) has become one of the two mainstays of data analysis and visualization in the biological sciences -- along with R.
And for those who have not seen, you can play with the date in your browser: http://mybinder.org/repo/minrk/ligo-binder/GW150914_tutorial.ipynb It spawn a Docker instance with the analysis just for you after a few second (and yes http, there is no login involved), so that you can play with the data. Enjoy. -- M Source on github: https://github.com/minrk/ligo-binder <https://github.com/minrk/ligo-binder>Binder: http://mybinder.org/ <http://mybinder.org/>
Everyone should keep up the good work - the science crowd is doing its best to put it to good use :)
cheers, --titus
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 01:32:33PM -0400, John Gill wrote:
Thanks for posting this.
I am thrilled to hear that python has played such a key role in an incredible piece of work.
And I will second your thanks to John Hunter.
Many years ago I was looking for some plotting software and stumbled on matplotlib. I sent off a patch for stacked bar plots. A few hours later I received an incredibly encouraging email that spurred me to make more changes. He was a delight to work.
I remember him fondly every time a matplotlib plot renders.
John
Khaled Monsoor <k@kmonsoor.com> writes:
hello everyone in this wonderful community,
probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO about existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4]
i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations.?? Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. We facilitated something bigger than us.
i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through 2-D matplotlib plots.
Thanks everyone.
Khaled Monsoor, a common user of Python
refs: [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_col... [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
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The world of academic science remains opaque to many in the computing world, but I am happy to say that thanks to your good work and particularly to the whole Software Carpentry initiative scientists are slowly opening their eyed to good software engineering practices. The recent LIGO publications are a testament not only to Python's readability and general usefulness, but also to the work of the many scientific computing devotees who have spent time making the Python ecosystem so usable and approachable. Steve Holden On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:34 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctbrown@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
I'm not sure how many people realize it, but Python (+ ipython/jupyter, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc. etc.) has become one of the two mainstays of data analysis and visualization in the biological sciences -- along with R.
Everyone should keep up the good work - the science crowd is doing its best to put it to good use :)
cheers, --titus
Thanks for posting this.
I am thrilled to hear that python has played such a key role in an incredible piece of work.
And I will second your thanks to John Hunter.
Many years ago I was looking for some plotting software and stumbled on matplotlib. I sent off a patch for stacked bar plots. A few hours later I received an incredibly encouraging email that spurred me to make more changes. He was a delight to work.
I remember him fondly every time a matplotlib plot renders.
John
Khaled Monsoor <k@kmonsoor.com> writes:
hello everyone in this wonderful community,
probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO about existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4]
i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations.?? Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. We facilitated something bigger than us.
i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 01:32:33PM -0400, John Gill wrote: through 2-D matplotlib plots.
Thanks everyone.
Khaled Monsoor, a common user of Python
refs: [1]:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_col...
[2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
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At Pycon Italia Sette we're already busy arranging for one of the (Italian) astrophysicists who worked on LIGO to give us a keynote about this (he's come to most previous Python conferences in Firenze so we should be able to convince him:-) even though this requires some reshuffling of the schedule which had just been announced -- seems well worth it! Alex On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Steve Holden <steve@holdenweb.com> wrote:
The world of academic science remains opaque to many in the computing world, but I am happy to say that thanks to your good work and particularly to the whole Software Carpentry initiative scientists are slowly opening their eyed to good software engineering practices. The recent LIGO publications are a testament not only to Python's readability and general usefulness, but also to the work of the many scientific computing devotees who have spent time making the Python ecosystem so usable and approachable.
Steve Holden
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:34 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctbrown@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
I'm not sure how many people realize it, but Python (+ ipython/jupyter, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc. etc.) has become one of the two mainstays of data analysis and visualization in the biological sciences -- along with R.
Everyone should keep up the good work - the science crowd is doing its best to put it to good use :)
cheers, --titus
Thanks for posting this.
I am thrilled to hear that python has played such a key role in an incredible piece of work.
And I will second your thanks to John Hunter.
Many years ago I was looking for some plotting software and stumbled on matplotlib. I sent off a patch for stacked bar plots. A few hours later I received an incredibly encouraging email that spurred me to make more changes. He was a delight to work.
I remember him fondly every time a matplotlib plot renders.
John
Khaled Monsoor <k@kmonsoor.com> writes:
hello everyone in this wonderful community,
probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO about existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among
i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations.?? Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a
open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single
contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. We facilitated something bigger than us.
i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 01:32:33PM -0400, John Gill wrote: the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4] through 2-D matplotlib plots.
Thanks everyone.
Khaled Monsoor, a common user of Python
refs: [1]:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_col...
[2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
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On 13.02.2016 23:59, Khaled Monsoor wrote:
hello everyone in this wonderful community,
probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO <http://www.ligo.org/> about existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4]
i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations. Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. We facilitated something bigger than us.
Thank you for sharing this information with us. This is really exciting :-) I took the liberty to use these great news as part of our EuroPython 2016 launch announcement yesterday (which I'll post here as well).
i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through 2-D matplotlib plots.
Thanks everyone.
Khaled Monsoor, a common user of Python
refs: [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_col... [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
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Congrats to all involved. A great achievement, and I mean both the experiment and the Python team(s). Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises About: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/p/about-vasudev-ram.html ActiveState Code recipes: https://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351 On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:11 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> wrote:
On 13.02.2016 23:59, Khaled Monsoor wrote:
hello everyone in this wonderful community,
probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO <http://www.ligo.org/> about existence of "gravitational waves", a major prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the team-members of LIGO.[3], [4]
i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations. Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. We facilitated something bigger than us.
Thank you for sharing this information with us. This is really exciting :-)
I took the liberty to use these great news as part of our EuroPython 2016 launch announcement yesterday (which I'll post here as well).
i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through 2-D matplotlib plots.
Thanks everyone.
Khaled Monsoor, a common user of Python
refs: [1]:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_col...
[2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
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Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Feb 16 2016)
Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ Python Database Interfaces ... http://products.egenix.com/ Plone/Zope Database Interfaces ... http://zope.egenix.com/
2016-01-19: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13.13 ... http://egenix.com/go86
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