Interviews with leaders of the scientific open source software community Vol. 2 (Volume 1 & 2)
Interviews with leaders of the scientific open source software community Vol. 2
About the Book
Second volume of interviews with leaders of the scientific open source software community previously published in FLOSS4Science's blog (now offline - current domain owner has nothing to do with original blog!).
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Table of Contents
Doing geospatial business with FLOSS: An Interview with CartoDB 3
Computational astrophysics with the yt project 6
Geospatial services with FLOSS: Interview with Oslandia 10
High-quality scientific graphics with MathGL: An interview with Alexey Balakin 12
Interview with Ivan Idris author of NumPy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide 17
Analysis of Questionnaire Data with R,
an interview with author Bruno Falissard 20
Fedora Scientific, an interview with Amit Saha 23
A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python, an interview with author Hans Petter Langtangen 26
Computer Aided Design using FLOSS: An Interview with Franz Reiter, lead developer of gCAD3D 28
Interview with Jeffrey D. Long, author of Longitudinal Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using R 33
Machine Learning with WEKA: An Interview with Mark Hall 35
The GNU Scientific Library: An interview with Mark Galassi 40
GNU Octave for the Life Scientist: An Interview with biochemist and author Heino Prinz 42
An Interview with Leon Brin, maintainer of Mathbuntu 46
Interview with the Sage Mathematics Software Project 49
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