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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

By : Cyrille Rossant
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

4.4 (7)
By: Cyrille Rossant

Overview of this book

Python is one of the leading open source platforms for data science and numerical computing. IPython and the associated Jupyter Notebook offer efficient interfaces to Python for data analysis and interactive visualization, and they constitute an ideal gateway to the platform. IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook, Second Edition contains many ready-to-use, focused recipes for high-performance scientific computing and data analysis, from the latest IPython/Jupyter features to the most advanced tricks, to help you write better and faster code. You will apply these state-of-the-art methods to various real-world examples, illustrating topics in applied mathematics, scientific modeling, and machine learning. The first part of the book covers programming techniques: code quality and reproducibility, code optimization, high-performance computing through just-in-time compilation, parallel computing, and graphics card programming. The second part tackles data science, statistics, machine learning, signal and image processing, dynamical systems, and pure and applied mathematics.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction

In this chapter, we will introduce SymPy, a Python library for symbolic mathematics. Whereas most of the book deals with numerical methods, we will see examples here where symbolic computations are more suitable.

SymPy is to symbolic computing what NumPy is to numerical computing. For example, SymPy can help us analyze a mathematical model before we run a simulation.

Although quite powerful, SymPy may be slower than other computer algebra systems. The main reason is that SymPy is written in pure Python. A faster and more complete mathematics system is Sage (see also the Getting started with Sage recipe in this chapter). Sage is a heavy standalone program that has many dependencies (including SymPy), and it uses only Python 2 at the time of writing. It is essentially meant for interactive use. Sage can be used with the Jupyter Notebook.

LaTeX

LaTeX is a document markup language widely used to write publication-quality mathematical equations. Equations written in LaTeX can be displayed...

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