The SciPy ecosystem
Scientific Python (SciPy)—pronounced sigh pie—is a group of Python packages created for the scientific community. It contains many functions, including a wide range of random number generators, linear algebra routines, and optimizers. SciPy is a comprehensive package and, over time, people have developed many extensions to customize and extend the package according to their needs.
The following are the main packages that are part of this ecosystem:
NumPy: For algorithms, the ability to create multi-dimensional data structures, such as arrays and matrices, is really important. NumPy offers a set of array and matrix data types that are important for statistics and data analysis. Details about NumPy can be found at http://www.numpy.org/ ...
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