Beginning Python Visualization : Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts We are visual animals. But before we can see the world in its true splendor our brains just like our computers have to sort and organize raw data and then transform that data to produce new images of the world. Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts Second Edition discusses turning many types of data sources big and small into useful visual data. And you will learn Python as part of the bargain. In this second edition you’ll learn about Spyder which is a Python IDE with MATLAB® like features. Here and throughout the book you’ll get detailed exposure to the growing IPython project for interactive visualization. In addition youll learn about the changes in NumPy and Scipy that have occurred since the first edition. Along the way youll get many pointers and a few visual examples. As part of this update you’ll learn about matplotlib in detail; this includes creating 3D graphs and using the basemap package that allows you to render geographical maps. Finally youll learn about image processing annotating and filtering as well as how to make movies using Python. This includes learning how to edit open video files and how to create your own movie all with Python scripts. Todays big data and computational scientists financial analysts engineers and web developers like you will find this updated book very relevant