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Lee Phillips
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Lee Phillips grew up on the 17th floor of a public housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Hampshire College, where he studied Physics, Mathematics, and Music. He received a Ph.D. in 1987 from Dartmouth in theoretical and computational physics for research in fluid dynamics. After completing post-doctoral work in plasma physics, Dr. Phillips was hired by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he worked on various problems, including the NIKE laser fusion project. Dr. Phillips is now the Chief Scientist of the Alogus Research Corporation, which conducts research in the physical sciences and provides technology assessment for investors.
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Scripting gnuplot with Python


In this recipe, we turn to the scripting language Python. This high-level language is well suited to the interactive exploration of data and the rapid development of programs for its analysis. This facility is made even stronger by its extension library numpy, which adds a rich set of efficient, C-coded routines for manipulating numerical arrays. In addition, there are several ways to make plots directly from Python. In this recipe we introduce Python's gnuplot interface, gnuplot.py.

Getting ready

You will need an installation of Python and its numerical library numpy, which comes with several popular scientific Python packages. You also need gnuplot.py, which you also may already have if you are doing scientific work with Python. If not, you can download it from its official Sourceforge site at http://gnuplot-py.sourceforge.net/.

How to do it…

Run the following code by typing python file.py, substituting the name of the Python script for file (the included sample...

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Lee Phillips grew up on the 17th floor of a public housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Hampshire College, where he studied Physics, Mathematics, and Music. He received a Ph.D. in 1987 from Dartmouth in theoretical and computational physics for research in fluid dynamics. After completing post-doctoral work in plasma physics, Dr. Phillips was hired by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he worked on various problems, including the NIKE laser fusion project. Dr. Phillips is now the Chief Scientist of the Alogus Research Corporation, which conducts research in the physical sciences and provides technology assessment for investors.
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