I'll start with my first Python-generated figure that will be going into a paper I've written:
I'll explain what is going on here eventually; for now I'll just say that creating this image was surprisingly easy.
Next, I'll share a sneak peak into a project I've just started: PyBats! Open source tools for reading and visualizing BATS-R-US output!
Again, I'll explain all of this later.
My Python experience has been very exciting so far. I hope to release quite a bit of code through Source Forge in the future.
oooOOOOooo we were doing box-and-whisker plots in class recently!!! My students asked when these were ever used and my response was ummm....in statistics. LOL, I'm a horrible teacher...
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel any better, I had no idea what to use them for until this project. It's actually a great way to summarize and compare many different distributions. The alternative is histograms, but they don't tell you the IQR's, medians, and outlyers. There is a ton of info in a box & whisker plot when you stop and think about it.
ReplyDeleteI realize that, but try to convince 7th graders they're useful...my goal for next year is to have some fantasy football assignments so we have some data to do statistics on :) Good times will be had :)
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