The unexpected effectiveness of Python in science
The unexpected effectiveness of Python in science
[Front] Posted Jun 1, 2017 18:12 UTC (Thu) by jake
In a keynote on the first day of PyCon 2017, Jake VanderPlas looked at the relationship between Python and science. Over the last ten years or so, there has been a large rise in the amount of Python code being used—and released—by scientists. There are reasons for that, which VanderPlas described, but, perhaps more importantly, the growing practice of releasing all of this code can help solve one of the major problems facing science today: reproducibility.