Numpy BoF at Scipy 2014

BoF logistics: Thursday July 10 1:30 p.m.–2:15 p.m. Room 204.

Fernando Perez will act as discussion facilitator.

Please use this page to collect ideas and topics for discussion for the Birds of a Feather session we'll hold at the Scipy 2014 conference. We'll use the content of this page as a rough agenda to keep the conversation on track.

This is my (Chuck's) first cut at listing topics for discussion.

• Status of Numpy and near future development
  1. Generalized ufuncs, not all ufuncs that can be generalized have been.
  2. Implementation of the @ operator.
  3. Datetime, Pandas vs Dynd vs Numpy, can we all agree on one implementation.
  4. Problems: new types, missing values, inheritance from ndarray.
• Status of Dynd and how it differs from Numpy
  1. Mark Wiebe ?
• Avoiding the python2 -> python3 debacle
  1. Evolution of Numpy to Numpy++
  2. Straight replacement
  3. Can Numpy be evolved?
  4. Can Dynd be made backward compatible?
  5. Versioning?
  6. dtypes?
  7. Buffer protocol?
  8. Scalars?