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Monthly Archives: January 2014
New Links: Scientific Python and Engineering Excel
The previous post had a link to Cyrille Rossant which is worth a closer look. The blog has many detailed posts on scientific applications of Python, as well as links to Galry: a high performance interactive visualization package in Python and his … Continue reading
Posted in Excel, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, VBA
Tagged Cyrille Rossant, Engineering spreadsheets, links, Python, Spreadsheets 4 Simulation
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The speed of loops in Python
This post is based on exercises published by Cyrille Rossant in his book “Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization”. Cyril also has a blog well worth looking at: http://cyrille.rossant.net/blog/ (Thanks to Alfred Vachris and Boris Vishnevsky for the links). … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Link to Python, NumPy and SciPy
Tagged IPython, Numpy, Pylab, Python, working with arrays
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Jack Orion
This is what Wikipedia says of the music played by The Pentangle: Pentangle are usually characterised as a folk-rock band. Danny Thompson preferred to describe the group as a “folk-jazz band.”[25] John Renbourn also rejected the “folk-rock” categorisation, saying, “One … Continue reading
Frame Analysis with Excel
Starting from 2009 I have posted a series on frame analysis using Excel, starting from a simple “on-sheet” solution and working through to applications able to solve large 2D or 3D problems. To follow the analysis process it is best … Continue reading
Two MaxAbs functions
Excel does not have a built-in function to find the maximum absolute value of a range, perhaps because the Max() and Abs() functions can be combined in an array function: =Max(Abs(datarange)) This solution has a number of drawbacks however: The … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Excel, MaxAbs function, maximum absolute value, UDF, VBA
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Newton Excel Bach, not (just) an Excel Blog 