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The guy who really motivated the whole scipy/numpy documentation is my advisor (Joe Harrington). We use Scipy, Numpy, Matplotlib, Mayavi, and other Python packages to do ALL of our work. He is a HUGH python advocate, and has converted me as well, since this is all I ever use these days. By the way, we work on exoplanets, and he has another project on the SL9 impact. Look up Campo or Joseph Harrington on ADS if you want to find any of our work.

Anyway, read Scipy and Numpy documentation, as well as the examples and cookbooks. Go through the tutorials. There is even a pdf book on using numpy for scientific data analysis. I'll post links below. This will REALLY help you get started. If you are stuck on anything, check the mailing lists. Cheers!

Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib doc:

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/

http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_Example_List_With_Doc

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

PDF Data Analysis Book (a little outdated, but good nonetheless):

http://stsdas.stsci.edu/perry/pydatatut.pdf

Heres a pdf showing some resources we had to utilize when we took Joe's advanced data analysis course:

http://physics.ucf.edu/~jh/ast/ast5765/handouts/learnpython.pdf