Interactive data analysis with iPython

Many users are familiar with matlab, which is not supported by the LCLS offline group. This is a description of how you can use interactive python to analyze your data in a very similar way.

Many thanks to the XPP crew, Henrik Lemke in particular, for providing guidance, code examples (in matlab) and feedback in writing the python scripts presented here.

ipython

... an interactive python shell

matplotlib pyplot / pylab

... an open-source plotting tool

numpy

... numeric python

matlab.py

... a module implementing in python some of the tools written by Henrik/XPP for matlab

ipimbtools.py

... a module implementing in python some plotting tools written by Henrik/XPP for matlab