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Welcome notes list logistics: dinner reservations on the wiki and Wi‑Fi details on the whiteboard, morning and afternoon tea provided. Specific claims: Python now overtakes Java as the most popular teaching language and is driving science work via numpy as a data transport layer, SciPy and matplotlib growth measured by commit counts, and the IPython notebook as a recent game changer. A survey shows Python behind R but ahead of Excel for data tasks.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:57How has Python grown
- 4:13Pythons origins
- 4:44Python communities
- 5:30Scientific Python ecosystem
- 6:22IPython notebook
- 6:51Data analysis
- 7:36Python in other fields
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