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Posts by edwood

0October 10, 2012
SOFA Statistics: An Interview with developer Dr. Grant Paton-Simpson

This time we bring you an interview with Dr. Grant Paton-Simpson the developer of SOFA (Statistics Open For All) a statistics and reporting application. Grant has a PhD …
0October 8, 2012
Recent Books on Geospatial Free/Libre Open Source Software

These are recent geospatial books involving free/libre open source software (from 2010 to 2012): PostGIS, OpenStreetMap, OpenLayers, GDAL/OGR and QGIS among others.

Note: Books have affiliate links.

The Geospatial Desktop
This book …
2September 26, 2012
GNU Octave: An interview with John W. Eaton and Jordi Gutiérrez

What a great interview we have for you this week! John W. Eaton, THE developer of GNU Octave, and Jordi Gutiérrez, one of their main developers and organizer …
0September 20, 2012
WinPython scientific distribution

WinPython is a portable scientific Python distribution for Windows (32 and 64-bits) built on top of NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib and the scientific environment Spyder:

WinPython, a portable scientific Python distribution …
0September 20, 2012
Pandas plotting examples

A blog published by Vytautas Jančauskas contains examples of various plotting techniques using pandas charting functions:

Plotting for Pandas GSoC2012.

It appears to be worke done during Google Summer of Code …
0September 19, 2012
Tutorial pandas DataFrames and SciPy

Randy Olson published a tutorial on how to use pandas DataFrames from SciPy including examples on how to perform the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon (MWW) RankSum test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA):

Statistical …
0September 18, 2012
BioRuby 1.4.3 available for download

Version 1.4.3 of the BioRuby project has been released.

Download at: BioRuby.

BioRuby project provides an integrated environment in bioinformatics for the Ruby language. This project is supported by University of …
0September 18, 2012
OSGeo-Live 6.0 geospatial distribution available for download

OSGeo live DVD distibution version 6.0 is available. This version i based on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support).

Download: OSGeo-Live 6.0.

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive …
0September 18, 2012
GeoTools 8.1 available for download

GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data. Version 8.1 of the library is available:

Get it at: GeoTools: GeoTools 8.1 Released.
0September 15, 2012
SciPy 2012 videos

The SciPy 2012 videos are available at YouTube and PyVideo.org (you should bookmark this!):

SciPy 2012 Videos

There are a total of 62 videos. Enjoy!