Tag Archives: UDFs

Computing and plotting the Mandelbrot set in Excel …

Posted on 07/12/2021 by dougaj4

… with Python, Numba and pyxll. As promised in the previous post, this post will look at alternative procedures for calculating and plotting the Mandelbrot set with Python based code. The spreadsheet presented here and the associated Python code may … Continue reading →

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Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 5.03

Posted on 22/11/2021 by dougaj4

Following some recent comments Graeme Dennes has released the latest version the Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet with some corrections to the test function documentation. The new file is located (as before) at: Tanh-Sinh Quadrature For more information on the last major release … Continue reading →

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Using Matplotlib from Excel with pyxll

Posted on 04/11/2021 by dougaj4

The pyxll documentation has many examples of plotting in Excel using Matplotlib and other packages, but I find the multiple options confusing and hard to follow, so this post works through the examples in the Matplotlib Users Guide tutorial. The … Continue reading →

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Installing PyPardiso

Posted on 24/10/2021 by dougaj4

Update 5th June 2022: The PyPardiso package may now be installed simply with pip (see Installing PyPardiso and speed of Scipy spsolve): Install the MKL library: pip install mkl Install PyPardiso: pip install pypardiso The PyPardiso package provides an interface to … Continue reading →

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More on Numba

Posted on 15/08/2021 by dougaj4

Following my recent post Making Finite Element Analysis go faster … I have been having a closer look at the options in the Numba just-in-time compiler for improving the performance of Python code. The Numba docs include a series of short … Continue reading →

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