IPython from the shell to a book with a single tool with Fernando Perez

Last Updated on August 15, 2020

If you get serious with data analysis and machine learning in python then you will make good use of IPython notebooks.

In this post we will review some takeaway points made by Fernando Perez, the creator of IPython in a keynote presentation at SciPy 2013.

The title of the talk was IPython: from the shell to a book with a single tool; the method behind the madness.

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Fernando opens the talk with an excellent quote by Richard Hamming (1962) from the preface of Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers that bears repeating:

the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers