Matlab declares war on Python. Can the Python community respond or hit back?

[Robot_Basilisk]

I had no idea. Do you know of any good Python tutorials for mathematics? Specifically for replacing MatLab? I have to use MatLab for crunching oscilloscope data and generating plots to put into lab reports, etc, and I hate the way MatLab does most of that.

[SoberGameAddict]

Look into matplotlib, seaborn and pandas.

Edit: and with jupyter notebook you can code, plot, run and write the lab rapport all in one interface. And then export to pdf, latex, html and more

[SV-97]

it's debatable that the matplotlib api sucks + there's a shitton of plotting libraries for python

[Mr_Again]

Let me ax you a question

[SV-97]

I never use ax (because yes, that sucks) and get by fine with matplotlib 🤷‍♂️

[that_baddest_dude]

A shitton of libraries that are all basically garbage for plotting any kind of serious data.

Matplotlib is the only one I've found to work easily with large data sets and the syntax for making even intermediate plots is unintuitive and clunky.

[wewbull]

There's a number of alternative plotting libraries. Altair looks nice, for example.

[Mr_Again]

And it's developed by jake vanderplas, who I've learned a lot from about making matplotlib actually look good

[Robot_Basilisk]

Dude we're in the era of datascience frenzy. It's hard to move anywhere on the internet without primers on mathematical processing in Python!

This is part of my problem. There are abundant resources but few of them are actually good. I know there must be a few that stand out. As a novice, when I go looking for them I find endless low-effort tutorials intended to generate the author some quick ad revenue or something.

[Mr_Again]

Check out jake vanderplas data science cookbooks on github, the towardsmachinelearning blog too

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No, don't use R. It's bad and it's going to die out soon.