July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
462 pages
9h 14m
English
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A brief of history of data analysis with Python
The history of the various Python software libraries is quite interesting. I am not a historian, so the following notes are written from my own perspective:
- 1989: Guido van Rossum implements the very first version of Python at the CWI in the Netherlands as a Christmas "hobby" project.
- 1995: Jim Hugunin creates Numeric—the predecessor to NumPy.
- 1999: Pearu Peterson wrote f2py as a bridge between Fortran and Python.
- 2000: Python 2.0 is released.
- 2001: The SciPy library is released. Also, Numarray, a competing library of Numeric is created. Fernando Perez releases IPython, which starts out as an "afternoon hack". NLTK is released as a research project.
- 2002: John Hunter creates the Matplotlib library.
- 2005: ...