Overview of Python Packages for Scientific Computing

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Overview of Python Packages for Scientific Computing

Resources

• The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language.

• NumFOCUS is a nonprofit that supports open source scientific computing.

• Best Practices in Scientific Computing.

Courses

Course	Description
Software Carpentry	Introduction to various programming topics
Data carpentry	Hands-on, interactive lessons on various data analysis topics
Intro to Data Analysis	Free Udacity course on using NumPy and Pandas for data analysis
DataCamp, Dataquest	Courses on various data science topics (not all are free)

Notebooks

Package	Description
Jupyter	Create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text
nteract	Embeds Jupyter notebooks as a desktop application

Data Wrangling

Package	Description
pandas	Offers table-like structure and some analysis tools

Plotting and Visualisation

Package	Description
matplotlib	The standard library for generating plots
seaborn	High-level interface to matplotlib based on pandas
bokeh, Plotly	Creates interactive visualisations for the web

Bioinformatics

Package	Description
scikit-bio	Bioinformatics algorithms in Python

Machine Learning

Package	Description
scikit-learn	The standard machine learning library
Orange	Application for interactive data analysis
statsmodels	Statistical models and tests

Deep Learning

Package	Description
TensorFlow	Neural network library from Google
Theano	Another neural network library
Lasagne	High-level interface to Theano

Networks and Graphs

Package	Description
NetworkX	Create, manipulate and anaylse networks and graphs
NetworKit	Large-sale network analysis

Image Processing

Package	Description
scikit-image	Collection of algorithms for image processing
OpenCV	Computational efficient library for computer vision with Python interface
Simple ITK	Library for medical image processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Package	Description
SpaCy	Library with lots of NLP algorithms
gensim	Topic modelling

Bayesian Inference

Package	Description
Stan	Statistical modeling, data analysis, and prediction in the Bayesian world
PyMC3	Alternative package for Bayesian statistical modeling

Survival Analysis

Package	Description
lifelines	Survival analysis in Python
scikit-survival	Survival analysis based on top of scikit-learn

Mathematics

Package	Description
scipy	statistics, linear algebra, numerical integration and optimisation
sympy	Library for symbolic mathematics
cvxpy, cvxopt	Convex optimisation
FEniCS	Platform for partial differential equations (PDE)

Workflow

Package	Description
Luigi	Platform from Spotify to build complex pipelines
Airflow	Another platform for managing workflows
Dask	Parallel computing library
IPython Parallel	Parallel processing built on top of IPython

Performance Improvement

Package	Description
Cython	Translates Python-style code to C
Numba	Generates optimised code using a just-in-time compiler

Thanks for this note. Can you add the libraries used for Audio an Voice processing?