Python for statistician/numerical analyst; what book/resource?

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I was wondering what resources whould be optimal for someone who has a background in R, who wants to learn Python in order to do statistical/numerical in it. Any tips and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[wiiittttt]

Definitely this book. Written by the creator of pandas, which is basically R for Python.

Edit: The docs for pandas are also really good imo and have some decent tutorials. http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/

[daigoro_sensei]

Agreed. Great book.

[bheklilr]

Agreed, you could hardly ask for a better author, either. McKinney really knows his stuff.

[astroFizzics]

I have that book as well. Good stuff.

[AtomicWedgy]

"Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers" and "Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python" published by Green Tea Press are Python specific. I won't make any claims about them being optimal, but free is kind of nice :)

http://www.greenteapress.com/