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Introducing Fernando Perez.
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Introducing Fernando
It is my pleasure today to introduce Fernando Perez, a research scientist at UC Berkeley.
Bill Punch suggested I introduce Fernando by asking, what is a swiss army knife for? The answer is that it's an inexpensive, versatile, and extremely effective tool that contains lots of tools, most of which you don't use or have any idea of what they are. However, it's safe to say that if you got dropped off on a desert island, a swiss army knife would be one of your most important tools for survival.
Fernando is the lead developer of the ipython project, which is the swiss army knife of scientific computing. It's an incredibly widely used free, open source, tool for working with data and code; but, because it's neither sexy or nor well funded, it's not on the radar. It's "just" widely used, and I routinely find that it has already solved problems five years ahead of when I've had them.
Fernando will be talking about the ipython notebook, which is a transformative solution reproducible research that we're starting to use here at MSU. My one caution about Fernando's talk is that he both talks and codes EXTREMELY fast, so ... don't blink! Fernando?
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