[SciPy-Dev] Thoughts on creating a toolbox for analysis of nonlinear dynamical system analysis

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Joseph Slater <joseph.c.slater at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> > On Mar 24, 2018, at 2:03 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Joseph Slater <
> joseph.c.slater at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Ralf: There was a recent discussion on the frustrations of lack of SciPy
> contributors- mousai is an example, along with my other projects, some more
> relevant to potential future inclusion in SciPy, some less.
> >
> > I wouldn't call them frustrations - compared to some years ago we're in
> pretty good shape. It's also not lack of contributors (200 open PRs
> currently and ~100 contributors per release), it's lack of maintainers.
> >
> > Mousai does look like a good start. I'm not a domain expert, but I'm
> well aware of the limited options in this area. Adding Mousai to
> https://scipy.org/topical-software.html may be useful to make it more
> discoverable - I'd be happy to merge a PR at https://github.com/scipy/
> scipy.org
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> I've submitted a pull request.
>

Thanks!


>
> There is no category for Mechanical/Civil, Aerospace Engineering. May not
> yet be time, but it might be worthwhile to have a separate category
> "Engineering: other", or maybe a separate page for engineering focused
> tools in general.
>
> I notices xarray and pandas in what I thought were odd locations. I would
> have put them in a category closer to data frames or database management or
> such (pandas is listed in economics, xarray in other). Categorizing is
> almost a futile effort, though, given my past experience maintaining the
> mactex wiki.
>

Yeah, it's pretty hard. If something is really weird we can move it, but
indeed no point in spending lots of effort on it.

Cheers,
Ralf
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