Yet MORE examples of scientific use of python
Still not convinced? Here’s a list of 10 basic scientific tasks made easy with python, by a Harvard scientist, to help ease you into it
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jbattat/computer/python/science/
Our friends over at Sciblogs use python to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things!
For an excellent series of tutorials on how to use Python to visualise mapping data follow the links below:
http://sciblogs.co.nz/seeing-data/2011/08/12/plotting-geographic-data-on-a-world-map-with-python/
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