Posts tagged ‘scipy’
New SciPy Superpack
November 28th, 2012 at 9:17 pm by Dr. Drang
Before I go any further, I should stress that the “new” in the title of the post means “new for me,” not “new to the rest of the world.” Because I’m still running Lion1 I need to use a version of the Superpack that’s a little behind the times. But it’s more up-to-date than the…
More baseball graphing
October 11th, 2012 at 12:12 am by Dr. Drang
At the start of last week’s baseball/programming post, I mentioned that I find watching baseball frustrating because the game moves more slowly than it did when I was a kid. No one challenged that assertion, but I decided I’d make another amateur foray into the world of baseball statistics to see if my casual impression…
SciPy v. Octave - Round one
June 17th, 2012 at 10:55 pm by Dr. Drang
On Friday, while working out a sampling plan for a client, I needed to calculate the 95% one-sided lower confidence limits for binomial sampling with a small number of samples.1 I figured it’d be a good little project for comparing Octave, which I’ve been using for years, and SciPy, which I’ve been promising myself I’d…



