1. Theano Overview In short, we can define Theano as: A programming language which runs on top of Python but has its own data structure which are tightly integrated with numpy A linear algebra compiler with defined C-codes at the backend A python package allowing faster implementation of mathematical expressions As popularly known, Theano was developed […]

1. Basics of Python for Data Analysis Why learn Python for data analysis? Python has gathered a lot of interest recently as a choice of language for data analysis. Here are some reasons which go in favour of learning Python: Open Source – free to install Awesome online community Very easy to learn Can become […]

Matlab was designed for dealing with numbers, not strings. As opposed to Python, which is an expert at string, Matlab could look sort of limited in this domain. Still you can do many things to manipulate this element. The goal of this post is to introduce you to the usage of strings in Matlab and […]

A variable ID card What is a variable? Variables are at the heart of any Matlab program. They can store anything that comes to your mind as long as it can be written in text or numbers. At the heart of any variable in Matlab is a matrix. This becomes even clearer if you start […]

You already can do quite some calculation in Matlab. In my next post, I will go over how to use the Editor to write down more complicated code. On Matlab editor  I talked about how to use the command line to make simple calculations. Although nearly everything can be done at the command line, it is obviously […]

More and more often, people come to me and ask : I want to start learning Matlab, where do I start? or I know this could be useful to me. Everybody is using Matlab around me. But that’s such a big time commitment. How should I learn this language? How long is it going to […]

What is Matlab – Where and Why to Use It Posted on March 29, 2015 by Nicholas If you’re reading this, you must be interested in learning what Matlab is, Lucky for you, Matlabtips is a fantastic resource to aid in learning the Matlab language and the multitude of functionality that comes with it. But first, we must answer these […]

Interactive Mode Programming Invoking the interpreter without passing a script file as a parameter brings up the following prompt − $ python Python 2.4.3 (#1, Nov 11 2010, 13:34:43) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. >>> Type the following text at the Python prompt […]

There are three different ways to start Python: (1) Interactive Interpreter: You can start Python from Unix, DOS, or any other system that provides you a command-line interpreter or shell window. Enter python the command line. Start coding right away in the interactive interpreter. $python # Unix/Linux or python% # Unix/Linux or C:>python # Windows/DOS […]

Local Environment Setup Open a terminal window and type “python” to find out if it is already installed and which version is installed. Getting Python Windows platform Binaries of latest version of Python 3 (Python 3.5.1) are available on this download page Following different installation options are available Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file Windows x86-64 […]