[SciPy-Dev] GSoC '15

[Ralf Gommers]

Hi Rahul, welcome!


On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:34 PM, rahul .poruri <rahul.poruri at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey, I'm Rahul and I'm interested in working on implementing numerical
> differentiation and improving interpolation.
>

That's two different ideas. Do you have any preference between those?


> I have done a course in computational physics and am doing a course on
> numerical methods in programming, through which I've grown comfortable
> working with numerical derivatives and interpolation (polynomial and
> spline).
>
> I am currently going through numdifftools but I would like to point out
> that I am getting a 404 while trying to access numdiff.py from statsmodels.
> Is this
> <https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/blob/master/statsmodels/sandbox/regression/tools.py>
> what was being referred to in the issue? And given that numdifftools goes
> well and beyond simply estimating the various derivatives of a function,
> which part of it would you like me to implement as a PR?
>

I'd suggest to start by fixing an issue labeled easy-fix. Any other issue
that seems interesting is also fine, but please don't submit a part of
numdifftools as a PR (yet) - the first step for that project would be to
put together a good overview document of what the complete API would look
like and review that. For more details on scipy.diff and in the interest of
DRY, can you please check the recent email threads from Maniteja and Ankit
(who are interested in the same topic).


Cheers,
Ralf
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