{"id":44,"date":"2012-06-30T10:08:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T09:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2012-07-02T05:32:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T04:32:14","slug":"a-month-of-math-software-june-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Math Software &#8211; June 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the June 2012 edition of A Month of Math Software.\u00a0 The archive to all previous editions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?cat=47\">is here<\/a>.\u00a0 Feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?page_id=2055\">contact me<\/a> if you have news that you&#8217;d like including in next month&#8217;s edition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A list of packages based upon SuiteSparse<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Davis has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cise.ufl.edu\/research\/sparse\/#users\">put together a list of projects and packages<\/a> that rely on the various  sparse matrix codes he&#8217;s written or co-authored over the years (UMFPACK,  CHOLMOD, SuiteSparseQR, KLU, CSparse, and the ordering codes AMD and  COLAMD).\u00a0 The list is very impressive but is incomplete.\u00a0 Drop Tim a line if you work on a project that uses his codes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Python based software<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagemath.org\/\">Sage<\/a>, the superb computer algebra system based on Python and dozens of other open source projects, has seen a minor update to 5.0.1.\u00a0 Take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagemath.org\/mirror\/src\/changelogs\/sage-5.0.1.txt\">changelog<\/a> for the new stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Pandas, the Python Data Analysis Library, is now at release 0.8.0.\u00a0 This is a major update on the old 0.7.3 and has significantly improved timeseries data analysis in pandas.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jae.1228\/abstract\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pandas.pydata.org\/getpandas.html\">Get pandas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pandas.pydata.org\/pandas-docs\/stable\/whatsnew.html\">What&#8217;s new in the latest release of pandas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Try a spreadsheet that isn&#8217;t Excel<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.gnome.org\/gnumeric\/\">Gnumeric<\/a>, the free spreadsheet that&#8217;s part of the GNOME office suite, was updated to 1.11.4 in June.\u00a0 Find out <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.gnome.org\/gnumeric\/announcements\/1.11\/gnumeric-1.11.4.shtml\">what&#8217;s new here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/download\/release-notes\/\">new version of LibreOffice<\/a> (version 3.5.4) was released at the end of May but I missed it in May&#8217;s update.\u00a0 LibreOffice is the fork of OpenOffice that everyone should be using these days and includes a great spreadsheet program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Math-o-mir &#8211; The mathematical notepad<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Danijel gorupec contacted me to tell me of a new release of his free software, <a href=\"http:\/\/gorupec.awardspace.com\/mathomir.html\">Math-o-mir<\/a>.\u00a0  According to Danijel &#8216;The Math-o-mir is a software tool designed to  write and edit mathematical equations as easily as possible. The goal  was to  achieve the same level of simplicity as with pencil and a sheet  of paper. It is designed to act as your personal math  notepad where you  can write down your quick and informal calculations.&#8217;\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t had  chance to try it myself but it looks interesting.\u00a0 See what&#8217;s new in the  1.7 release over at <a href=\"http:\/\/mathomir.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/03\/math-o-mir-v1-7-is-released\/\">Danijel&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Version 1.9.9 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gretl.sourceforge.net\/\">Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library<\/a>, gretl, was released at the beginning of June. As the name suggests, gretl is mainly of use to econometricians and it has a long pedigree.\u00a0 It&#8217;s first release was in 2000 and it has since been discussed in several journal articles (see below).\u00a0 See what&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wfu.edu\/pipermail\/gretl-announce\/2012\/000024.html\">new in version 1.9.9 here<\/a>.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jae.1228\/abstract\">Using gretl for Monte Carlo experiments<\/a> &#8211; Journal of Applied Econometrics 2010<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jae.946\/abstract\">GRETL 1.6.0 and its numerical accuracy<\/a> &#8211; Journal of Applied Econometrics 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jae.927\/abstract\">Teaching undergraduate econometrics with GRETL<\/a> &#8211; Journal of Applied Econometric 2006<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jae.704\/abstract\">GRETL: Econometric Software for the GNU generation<\/a> &#8211; Journal of Applied Econometrics 2003<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Numerical Libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Magma, the GPU accelerated linear algebra library, has been updated to version 1.2.1.\u00a0 See what&#8217;s new at <a href=\"http:\/\/icl.cs.utk.edu\/magma\/news\/news.html?id=295\">http:\/\/icl.cs.utk.edu\/magma\/news\/news.html?id=295<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The HSL numerical library has seen some updates.\u00a0 Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsl.rl.ac.uk\/changes.html\">http:\/\/www.hsl.rl.ac.uk\/changes.html<\/a> for the details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Blogs, Bits and Bobs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/planet.octave.org\/\">Planet Octave<\/a> is now up and running.\u00a0 This is a collection of blogs related to Octave and is currently made up of posts from the Google Summer of Code students.  Some great stuff on the Just in Time (JIT) compiler development, Octave GUI and more.<\/li>\n<li>PTC&#8217;s MathCAD blog turns 3 years old. Head over and take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ptc.com\/2012\/06\/05\/happy-3rd-birthday-to-the-mathcad-blog\/\">their 5 most popular posts<\/a>.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t afford Mathcad, why not try the free Mathcad clone, SMath Studio which <a href=\"http:\/\/en.smath.info\/forum\/yaf_postst1396_SMath-Studio-0-95-4559--25-June-2012.aspx\">saw a new release this month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Geogebra now <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.geogebra.org\/\">has a blog<\/a>.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.geogebra.org\/en\/GeoGebra_Newsletter_2012-06\">June newsletter<\/a> is also worth checking out.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GeoGebra\">Wikipedia tells us<\/a> that &#8216;GeoGebra is an interactive geometry, algebra, and calculus application, intended for teachers and students.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/?fromgroups#%21topic\/eureqa-group\/eVQTkq_HRZ8\">Version 0.97 of Eureqa\/Formulize<\/a> has been released.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t know what this is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NhC1Qb-PQ5Q\">take a look at the video<\/a>.\u00a0 In a nutshell, you plug in data and it figures out the formula that best models it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the June 2012 edition of A Month of Math Software.\u00a0 The archive to all previous editions is here.\u00a0 Feel free to contact me if you have news that you&#8217;d like including in next month&#8217;s edition. 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