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30–31 May 2016
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
There is a live webcast for this event.

Lose Your Loops with Numpy

30 May 2016, 14:30
30m
31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

CERN

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Speaker

Thoth Kenneth Gunter (Northwestern University (US))

Description

Developing in python is fast. Computation, however, can often be another story. Or at least that is how it may seem. When working with arrays and numerical datasets one can subvert many of python’s computational limitations by utilizing numpy. Numpy is python’s standard matrix computation library. Many python users only use numpy to store and generate arrays, failing to utilize one of python’s most powerful computational tools. By leveraging numpy’s ufuncs, aggregation, broadcasting and slicing/masking/indexing functionality one can cut back on slow python loops and increase the speed of their programs by as much as 100x. This talk aims at teaching attendees how to use these tools through toy examples.

Talk Length 30 minutes

Primary author

Thoth Kenneth Gunter (Northwestern University (US))

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