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For the first time ever, NumPy—a core project for the Python scientific computing stack—has received grant funding. The proposal, “Improving NumPy for Better Data Science” will receive $645,020 from the Moore Foundation over 2 years, with the funding going to UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science. The principal…
Recently we announced that NumPy, a foundational package for scientific computing with Python, had received its first-ever grant funding since the start of the project in 2006. Community interest in this announcement was massive, raising our website traffic by over 2600%. The predominant reaction was one of…
NumFOCUS's Code of Conduct Committee's apology to Jeremy Howard
SciPy—a NumFOCUS Affiliated Project —recently crossed a major milestone for any open source project: version 1.0! NumFOCUS extends our hearty congratulations to all of the SciPy contributors and community members who helped get the project to this point.