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By Eric Anderson

NumPy & SciPy with Travis Oliphant

Published January 27, 2021 4:00am

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Travis Oliphant (@teoliphant) take a far-reaching tour through the history of the Python data community. Travis has had a hand in the creation of many open-source projects, most notably the influential libraries, NumPy and SciPy, which helped cement Python as the standard for scientific computing. Join us for the story of a fledgling community from a time “before open-source was cool,” and their lessons for today’s open-source landscape.

In this episode we discuss: How biomedical engineering, MRIs, and an unhappy tenure committee led to NumPy and SciPy Overcoming early challenges of distri...