Ed Schofield

@jakevdp Here's a start: github.com/PythonCharmers… :-)

Free idea for a well-defined, impactful open source project: Create a package which mirrors the API of seaborn, but outputs interactive Altair plots instead of matplotlib.

@nfFrenchie Sure, I'd be happy to help. My email address is ed@pythoncharmers.com.

11 small things that will give you a big #happiness boost: muse.cm/1Bre6wX

How the sun sees you youtu.be/o9BqrSAHbTc

If great scientists had logos...

New version of python-future (v0.12) for easy single-source Python 2/3 compatibility. python-future.org. Now easier, more compatible!

New version of Python-Future for Py2/3 compatibility: now with auto translation from Py2 modules! #what-s-new-in-version-0-11" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">python-future.org/whatsnew.html#… #python3

"The end of the Facebook era": takeaswig.com/the-end-of-the…. I couldn't agree more!

@ubershmekel Thanks for the update! More Py3 ports coming soon! ...

We've ported Python package xlwt for writing Excel spreadsheets to #python3! On PyPI as "xlwt-future". github.com/PythonCharmers… @ubershmekel

A beautiful article on the biology of love: aeonmagazine.com/oceanic-feelin…

We're hosting a #python3 porting sprint in Melbourne, Monday 28 Oct: meetup.com/Melbourne-Pyth…. All welcome!

New version of python-future for easy #python3 and python2 compatibility: python-future.org.

Why do we cry? neuroecology.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/why… In the brainstem, crying may be closely linked with laughter.

Mozilla plan seeks to debug scientific code nature.com/news/mozilla-p… Important given one missed semicolon can lead to years of work wasted.

Groklaw shuts down:"There is now no shield from forced exposure" by the US. goo.gl/HGCvf9 I started crying, reading PJ's last post.

New post: Scikit-learn 0.14 release: features and benchmarks gael-varoquaux.info/blog/?p=169 An overview of the recent progress in scikit-learn

Some say I'm laconic. Well, here's what I have to say about that:

"Open-access journals, where authors pay a publication fee, have an incentive to publish a high volume of articles." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23902511