TY  - JOUR
TI  - Array programming with NumPy
AU  - Charles R. Harris
AU  - K. Jarrod Millman
AU  - Stéfan J. van der Walt
AU  - Ralf Gommers
AU  - Pauli Virtanen
AU  - David Cournapeau
AU  - Eric Wieser
AU  - Julian Taylor
AU  - Sebastian Berg
AU  - Nathaniel J. Smith
AU  - Robert Kern
AU  - Matti Picus
AU  - Stephan Hoyer
AU  - Marten H. van Kerkwijk
AU  - Matthew Brett
AU  - Allan Haldane
AU  - Jaime Fernández del Río
AU  - Mark Wiebe
AU  - Pearu Peterson
AU  - Pierre Gérard-Marchant
AU  - Kevin Sheppard
AU  - Tyler Reddy
AU  - Warren Weckesser
AU  - Hameer Abbasi
AU  - Christoph Gohlke
AU  - Travis E. Oliphant
PY  - 2020
JO  - Nature
DO  - 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
AB  - Abstract Array programming provides a powerful, compact and expressive syntax for accessing, manipulating and operating on data in vectors, matrices and higher-dimensional arrays. NumPy is the primary array programming library for the Python language. It has an essential role in research analysis pipelines in fields as diverse as physics, chemistry, astronomy, geoscience, biology, psychology, materials science, engineering, finance and economics. For example, in astronomy, NumPy was an important part of the software stack used in the discovery of gravitational waves 1 and in the first imaging of a black hole 2 . Here we review how a few fundamental array concepts lead to a simple and powerful programming paradigm for organizing, exploring and analysing scientific data. NumPy is the foundation upon which the scientific Python ecosystem is constructed. It is so pervasive that several projects, targeting audiences with specialized needs, have developed their own NumPy-like interfaces and array objects. Owing to its central position in the ecosystem, NumPy increasingly acts as an interoperability layer between such array computation libraries and, together with its application programming interface (API), provides a flexible framework to support the next decade of scientific and industrial analysis.
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