Instructor: Ines

Outline

This lecture will introduce NumPy and its ndarray data structure, which are at the core of most scientific Python packages.

At the end of the lecture, participants will be able to:

• Understand why NumPy enables efficient computation and what are NumPy arrays.
• Manipulate arrays of numbers with NumPy

Material

• code
• slides

Resources

• Numpy cheatsheet

• Scipy cheatsheet

• NumPy User Guide

• NumPy for MATLAB users

• A Visual Intro to NumPy and Data Representation by Jay Alammar, up to “Transposing and Reshaping.

• Scipy introduction

• Scipy IO tutorial

More resources on Python code optimization

• Python map() function with EXAMPLES
• Computation on NumPy Arrays: Universal Functions

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