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#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
Lex Fridman Podcast
Sci-Fi and the Plotting Tool
The success of plotting came from John Hunter, who had a similar experience to his. He was working in a quant field and he said, we need better plotting. So he just went out and said, cool, I'll make a new project and we'll call it Matplotlib. This is before and Sci-Fi was trying to add plotting. It didn't have much success. In 2001, we released Sci-Fi and then Enthok created a conference called Sci-Fi, which was brought people together to talk about the space. Another conference is still ongoing. But early on, it was a collection of 50 people who care about scientists,. mostly, you know, practicking
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