Tag Archives: Numpy

More Numpy with Excel and xlwings

Posted on May 24, 2018 by

The spreadsheet presented in the last post on sorting also includes links to many other Numpy functions.  The spreadsheet and associated Python file can be downloaded from: xlNumpy.zip The Numpy functions require xlwings and Numpy to be installed, which are included in … Continue reading →

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Sorting with Python and Numpy

Posted on May 19, 2018 by

Following the previous post, lets look at sorting functions in the Numpy library. The spreadsheet xlwNumpy links to a variety of Numpy functions, including the sorting functions described below.  The spreadsheet and associated Python code can be downloaded from: xlNumpy.zip … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy update for Python 3

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

The xlwSciPy spreadsheet allows a wide variety of the science and maths functions in the Python Numpy and Scipy libraries to be called directly from Excel.  The spreadsheet has now been updated for use with Python 3.  The spreadsheet and … Continue reading →

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More circle fitting options with Scipy

Posted on March 17, 2018 by

A comment on the first post on this topic found that the method used did not work well for short arcs of large radius circles.  An example of the problem can be seen in the screen shots below: The function … Continue reading →

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More Python rotation functions

Posted on February 23, 2018 by

The code described in the previous post includes a Python function that rotates 3D coordinates by an angle defined with two vectors, using Rodrigue’s Rotation.  I have now added this function to the IP2_py spreadsheet, where it is used in the … Continue reading →

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Fitting 3D circles to scattered points

Posted on February 11, 2018 by

Following a comment at update-to-glob_to_loc3-and-loc_to_glob3-functions, I have modified the Python code at the linked site, so it can be run from Excel, via xlwings.  The spreadsheet described below, and the associated Python code, can be download from: 3DCirc.zip The original … Continue reading →

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Using Alglib least-squares solvers

Posted on September 23, 2017 by

Following the last post on using the Python version of Alglib from Excel, via xlwings, this post looks in more detail at alternatives for fitting a non-linear function to a set of data, using the Levenberg-Marquardt method.  The spreadsheet with … Continue reading →

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