[melbourne-pug] pythontex talk

[Noon Silk]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Andrew Walker <walker.ab at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe I'm biased, but I'd love to hear this talk.
>
> It's always a struggle to get publication quality plots in a sensible
> amount of time, especially when you're seemingly fighting against pstricks,
> single- vs. multi-column layouts, not to mention the challenges of
> matplotlib tick and title labelling.
>
> From the questions asked over at the last few meetings I've been to,
> there's been a pretty strong interest from the academic & science
> communities lately, with lots of interest (and questions) about numpy /
> scipy / pandas / matplotlib. There are also at least three of the major
> universities represented (at least semi- regularly).
>
> Also, given that LaTeX is now one of the targets for nbconvert (the
> IPython notebook converter), this kind of tool is going to get even more
> important in the future.
>

Along these lines, have you seen the stuff William Stein[1] at
cloud.sagemath - https://cloud.sagemath.com/ - has been doing? I'm not
generally into that kind of thing, but it is pretty cool!

[1] https://plus.google.com/115360165819500279592/posts



> Andrew.
>

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