I know this sounds stupid, but I have failed to find on the web a simply-accessible text file giving the GPS coordinates for the world’s major cities. The web site World-gazetteer is helpful, but doesn’t really give what I want. So I wrote a small Python web-scraping script to get the data I needed. BeautifulSoup [...]
When I started working in my new field (data analysis of functional brain images), I was surprised to find in our data-analysis scripts what I thought was a very particular code smell: the numerical code is always doing a lot of filename and path manipulation, loading and saving data even in the core routines. I [...]
Mayavi 3.1.0 has just been released, and I think it is a fantastic version. We are starting to be able to focus on the details and the focus. In addition, we are getting user feedback, which helps identify the pain points.
Automatic scripting
This is a huge deal! You now have a record button on the pipeline [...]
We used to park our car in a calm neighborhood a few blocks away from our place, as there where always empty spots.
In January of this year, our car was picked up by the police because we had left it parked for more than a week (actually more than two). I was amazed to find [...]
The mayavi manual in SVN has now 120 pages when compiled to pdf. I know that this is a stupid metric, and that the quality is more important then the number of pages, but it does give me a warm and fuzzy feeling.
More seriously, next release of Mayavi (coming soon, we promise) is going to [...]
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