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Re: An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

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Post by marmaduke »

abetusk wrote: post #9

This book is distributed under a non commercial license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) [0]. While I understand that language is evolving and that only under a "strict definition" of open access does it mean removing barriers to copying and reuse [1], it's seems pretty duplicitous to say it's "open" while putting it under a non-commercial license. [0] https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book/blo... [1] https://en.w…

Maybe you could explain why a non commercial license would not be open, for anyone not looking to turn a profit off of the author’s work?

Re: An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

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Post by mindcrime »

webmaven wrote: post #5
mistermann wrote: post #4

Does anyone know of a site where people submit visualizations, where one might find these tools pushed to the extremes of what they can do in novel ways?

Perhaps the Information is Beautiful site?: https://informationisbeautiful.net There is also the Data is Beautiful reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/

Perhaps also

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataviz/

Re: An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

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Post by jjnoakes »

abetusk wrote: post #9

This book is distributed under a non commercial license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) [0]. While I understand that language is evolving and that only under a "strict definition" of open access does it mean removing barriers to copying and reuse [1], it's seems pretty duplicitous to say it's "open" while putting it under a non-commercial license. [0] https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book/blo... [1] https://en.w…

To expand upon this a little, it's worth noting that the book and the code are licensed separately and differently.

Re: An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

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Post by mindcrime »

abetusk wrote: post #9

This book is distributed under a non commercial license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) [0]. While I understand that language is evolving and that only under a "strict definition" of open access does it mean removing barriers to copying and reuse [1], it's seems pretty duplicitous to say it's "open" while putting it under a non-commercial license. [0] https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book/blo... [1] https://en.w…

it's seems pretty duplicitous to say it's "open" while putting it under a non-commercial license.

I can't really agree with that. For open source, yes, the OSD does make it clear that the definition does not permit licenses that prevent commercial resale. But "open access" for scientific works, or just technical documentation in general, does not seem - in vernacular use - to entail such a strict requirement.

Of course as an advocate of "free culture" in the most general sense, I might say I would prefer a book, paper, article, etc. to be published under something less restrictive. But I see nothing "duplicitious"[1] about this particular usage.

Consider that the corresponding Wikipedia entry on Open Access[2] contains this blurb, which supports the idea that both "gratis open access" and "libre open access" would be considered sub-types of the more general idea of "open access."

Similar to the free content definition, the terms 'gratis' and 'libre' were used in the BOAI definition to distinguish between free to read versus free to reuse.[38] Gratis open access (Free to read) refers to online access free of charge, and libre open access (open access) refers to online access free of charge plus some additional re-use rights

[1]: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/duplicitous

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

Re: An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

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Post by rougier »

jointpdf wrote: post #7

This person is prolific and has a ton of great tutorials, free books, and more in their repo (I like the numpy book: https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/ ). Major thanks to the author for sharing all this knowledge.

Thanks!

Re: An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

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Post by rougier »

earthscienceman wrote: post #15

Does anyone know if M. Rougier has posted his emacs config for python? I'm heavy on the emacs/python/science and I'm curious if he uses any of the more extensive packages, like elpy.

I'm using default python mode actually (no elpy, no lsp) and emacs python configuration is maybe 3 or 4 lines.

Re: An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

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Post by rougier »

abetusk wrote: post #9

This book is distributed under a non commercial license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) [0]. While I understand that language is evolving and that only under a "strict definition" of open access does it mean removing barriers to copying and reuse [1], it's seems pretty duplicitous to say it's "open" while putting it under a non-commercial license. [0] https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book/blo... [1] https://en.w…

The NC part was mostly to avoid having someone to sell the book on some platform without my knowledge.

Re: An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

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Post by rougier »

jjnoakes wrote: post #13
abetusk wrote: post #9

This book is distributed under a non commercial license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) [0]. While I understand that language is evolving and that only under a "strict definition" of open access does it mean removing barriers to copying and reuse [1], it's seems pretty duplicitous to say it's "open" while putting it under a non-commercial license. [0] https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book/blo... [1] https://en.w…

To expand upon this a little, it's worth noting that the book and the code are licensed separately and differently.

Yes, code is BSD licensed.

Re: An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

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Post by belter »

rougier wrote: post #16
jointpdf wrote: post #7

This person is prolific and has a ton of great tutorials, free books, and more in their repo (I like the numpy book: https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/ ). Major thanks to the author for sharing all this knowledge.

Thanks!

Thank you for this:

https://rougier.github.io/python-visualization-landscape/lan...

and your other interesting projects.

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