Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-16 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello David, I know you said you settled on R... but just in case you are still interested in possible Python options, I think this book might well cover about everything you were looking for using numpy, scipy and pandas. Python for Data Analysis http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread David Martins
cise compared to sql/sqlite (at least for me). On top of that it provides the possibility to do additional analysis later on for specific cases. That it can connect with python is another plus. Thanks again for everyones ideasdm > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:59:25 + > Subject: Re: [Tutor]

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 14 November 2012 03:17, David Martins wrote: > Hi All > > I'm trying to use python for analysing data from building energy simulations > and was wondering whether there is way to do this without using anything sql > like. There are many ways to do this. > > The simulations are typically run f

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread Bjorn Madsen
Hi David, I have found happiness with http://ipython.org/ which can do stuff like this: [image: _images/ipy_0.13.png] SQLite is embedded in python's database API, and gives an easy data import and handling. The syntax is extremely well described here: http://www.sqlite.org/lang.html and I've bee

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread Alan Gauld
On 14/11/12 08:13, David Martins wrote: I remember having looked at R a while ago but did never pick it up. I found a nice tutorial and will give it a go. There is an interface to R from Python too. So you can combine the two.. However, given your stated aims SQL does look like the most natur

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-14 Thread David Martins
give it a go. Cheers Chris Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:13:46 -0800 Subject: Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python From: ryan.wap...@gmail.com To: walksl...@gmail.com CC: awesome.me...@outlook.com; tutor@python.org Not sure how stuck you are to python (I have no doubt it can tackle this) but this is

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-13 Thread Ryan Waples
Not sure how stuck you are to python (I have no doubt it can tackle this) but this is very much the sort of thing that 'R' is *really* good at. Just FYI. Good luck Ryan ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: [Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-13 Thread Andre' Walker-Loud
Hi David, > I'm trying to use python for analysing data from building energy simulations > and was wondering whether there is way to do this without using anything sql > like. > > The simulations are typically run for a full year, every hour, i.e. there are > 8760 rows and about 100+ variable

[Tutor] data analysis with python

2012-11-13 Thread David Martins
Hi All I'm trying to use python for analysing data from building energy simulations and was wondering whether there is way to do this without using anything sql like. The simulations are typically run for a full year, every hour, i.e. there are 8760 rows and about 100+ variables such as exter