Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib

Nicolas P. Rougier is a full‐time researcher in computational cognitive neuroscience, located in Bordeaux, France. He’s doing his research at Inria (the French institute for computer science) and the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases where he investigates decision-making, learning and cognition using computational models of the brain and distributed, numerical and adaptive computing, a.k.a. artificial neural networks and machine learning. His research aims to irrigate the fields of philosophy with regard to the mind‐body problem, medicine to account for the nor‐ mal and pathological functioning of the brain, and the digital sciences to offer alternative computing paradigms. Beside neuroscience and philos‐ ophy, he’s also interested in open and reproducible science (he has co‐ founded ReScience C with Konrad Hinsen and ReScience X with Etienne Roesch), scientific visualization (he created glumpy, co‐created VisPy), Science outreach (e.g. The Conversation) and computer graphics (espe‐ cially digital typography).

Nicolas P. Rougier has been using Python for more than 20 years and Matplotlib for more than 15 years for modeling in neuroscience, machine learning and for advanced visualization. Nicolas P. Rougier is the author of several online resources and tutorials and he’s teaching Python, NumPy, and scientific visualisation at the University of Bordeaux as well as at var‐ ious conferences and schools worldwide.