MATLAB® and NumPy/SciPy have a lot in common. But there are many differences. NumPy and SciPy were created to do numerical and scientific computing in the most natural way with Python, not to be MATLAB® clones. This page is intended to be a place to collect wisdom about the differences, mostly for the purpose of helping proficient MATLAB® users become proficient NumPy and SciPy users. NumPyProConPage is another page for curious people who are thinking of adopting Python with NumPy and SciPy instead of MATLAB® and want to see a list of pros and cons.
Installing numpy and scipy is easy; unfortunately, both packages depend on other softwares which themselves can be tricky to install, or are often distributed with bugs by major distributions. Hopefully, you can install numpy and scipy without any softwar
Pyoptic is an optics and physics simulation based on python and uses scipy as a calculation engine, matplotlib and tvtk for visualisation. It is mainly intended for simple simulations of optical engineering, imaging systems, laser systems, laser transportation and applications, lens design etc.
This automator installation package will install recent SVN builds of Numpy (1.1) and Scipy (0.7), as well as Matplotlib (0.98), iPython (0.8.3) and PyMC (2.0 beta) for OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on Intel Macintosh.
Mac OS X installers for several important scientific computing tools, using recent builds from svn or cvs. I will attempt to make these weekly builds, where appropriate.
This library provides Python functions for agglomerative clustering. Its features include * generating hierarchical clusters from distance matrices * computing distance matrices from observation vectors * computing statistics on clusters *
mat files contain data saved in Matlab's proprietary format. How to read these files in Python depends on the version of Matlab used to save them, up to 7.1 or greater. Here are exemples of how to read two variables lat and lon from a mat file called "test.mat".
News: all of the few remaining calls to scipy have been replaced with calls to numpy. Versions 0.1.8 and above do not require scipy as a dependency. Introduction This library provides Python functions for agglomerative clustering. Its features include * generating hierarchical clusters from distance matrices * computing distance matrices from observation vectors * computing statistics on clusters * cutting linkages to generate flat clusters * and visualizing clusters with dendrograms. The interface is very similar to MATLAB's Statistics Toolbox API to make code easier to port from MATLAB to Python/Numpy. The core implementation of this library is in C for efficiency.
This is code implements the example given in pages 11-15 of An Introduction to the Kalman Filter by Greg Welch and Gary Bishop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Computer Science.
Elefant (Efficient Learning, Large-scale Inference, and Optimisation Toolkit) is an open source library for machine learning licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). We develop an open source machine learning toolkit which provides
PyTables is a package for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to efficiently and easily cope with extremely large amounts of data.
PyTables is built on top of the HDF5 library, using the Python language and the NumPy package.