Python & Gnuplot & AHK & Processing

Gnuplot is a great command line tool that creates very quickly graphs from data files. The official site of Gnuplot is: http://www.gnuplot.info/ . To see examples of graphs produced by Gnuplot, you should have a look here: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.4/. Using python and gnuplot, I produced approx 80 graphs similar to the one below, that fitted nicely […]

Nice tutorials and book on Python

You can find a lot of tutorials on Python, but these is a pretty good one (actually 7) from Nick Parlante from GoogleDevelopers on youTube – here is the link to the first one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk. This is a really a great tutorial for beginners. The book I’m using as my main python textbook (and would […]

Playing with Python in the wild Amazon (elastic cloud)

This Easter bank holiday, I spent some time working on a little problem I have at work with a simulation I’m writing in Python. It’s basically a Monte-Carlo simulation which is performing billions of calculations. To be more exact, the simulation is a script that performs about half a million of calculations and it has […]