Python Leiden (NL) meetup: python in applied mathematics - Tobias Datema

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(One of my summaries of the first Python Leiden (NL) meetup in Leiden, NL).

Tobias studied applied mathematics at Delft University.

One of the fields he used python for was graph theory. A graph consists of points (“vertices”) connected by lines (“edges”). It is a large field with many real world projects like social networks and logistics. He showed a demo he made with networkx, a python library that makes it real easy to do these kinds of graph calculations.

Graphs need to be shown. He used pyviz for that by converting the networkx graph to the format understood by pyviz.

Another field is machine learning. He did an experiment with a simulated self-driving car. He used a library that handles the basics like “reacting to a closed line on the road” and “measuring the distance to the dashed line on the road”. The simulation is shown in a visual form, which makes it funny to look at.

In his study, python was also handy for statistics and numerical analysis.

 
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