How recent are the references in your thesis or dissertation? Have you only cited papers from the last few years? Or have you gone back to find dozens of pre-war publications? I thought it would be interesting to find out, so I made a python script to plot the publications in your thesis. In my… Read More »
Which Programming Language Should I Learn? With hundreds of programming languages out there to choose from, it can be difficult to know where to start. What makes matters worse is that the question of which programming language someone should learn can get people quite hot under the collar, as they insist that their preferred language… Read More »
I’ve recently been looking into python packages that could help improve the appearance of matplotlib – the venerable, go-to plotting library for Python. For quickly plotting some data vanilla matplotlib generally does just fine, but for truly ‘publication-ready’ plots, you’ll probably want to look to one of the more advanced libraries. In this post a… Read More »
Python Pandas for Physics The Pandas package brings advanced data structures and data analysis tools to python. It was initially concieved for use in the world of finance, but can it be of any use to us interested in physics? For some time I’ve been trying to get to the stage that I can use… Read More »
Python is becoming more established for scientific data analysis and processing, but what python instrument control options are there? For me the benchmark instrument control software has to be LabView. It’s incredibly expensive and certainly has it’s quirks, but I’ve found that it can often make interfacing with hardware relatively painless. I’ve recently been exploring… Read More »