Index error in 'Analyzing Patient Data' - 01-numpy.md

[ozej8y]

In the lesson 'Analyzing Patient Data' there is an index error.

After the heading 'Mystery Functions in IPython', is the line:

print('maximum inflammation for patient 2:', numpy.max(data[2, :]))

Since indexation in python starts at 0, Patient 2 should be numpy.max(data[1, :])

[GregoryRHart]

If you look at the example above that you will see that the patients are also being zero indexed:

patient_0 = data[0, :] # 0 on the first axis, everything on the second
print('maximum inflammation for patient 0:', patient_0.max())

So patient 2 is the 3rd patient in the list and thus in index 2.

However, this was quite confusing for those in the workshop I attended. It might be helpful to add a call out box indicating that we are shifting our language to match the array indexing. i.e. The array starts with the zeroth patient, then the first patient, etc.

[ozej8y]

Hi Greg,

You are correct, a call out box would help to clarify the issue.

Thanks,
Jay.